Mary

“The woman wore her bitterness like a badge; the kind of person who writes one-star book reviews.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“But I do know books—and that meant there was nothing she couldn’t know, eventually. That was a magic in and of itself.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Evrim’s existence implicated yours. It implied you, too, were nothing more than a machine—a swarm of preprogrammed impulses iterating endlessly. If Evrim was a conscious thing, and made, then maybe you were made as well. A construct made of different materials. A skeleton walking around, sheathed in meat, fooled into thinking it has free will.”
― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

“We came from the ocean, and we only survive by carrying salt water with us all our lives—in our blood, in our cells. The sea is our true home. This is why we find the shore so calming: we stand where the waves break, like exiles returning home. —Dr. Ha Nguyen, How Oceans Think”
― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea