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Later, when I saw where he had been standing, I was amazed that he was able to speak at all. “But of Washington itself, nothing remains.”
Shay
BAM! I'm hooked! Such a compelling paragraph. Written in a way that is both tightly written and also humanizing to the characters and the situation. I like that we're following people who have a military background (and thus were able to get most of their shit together in a crisis), but that even they were not able to conceive of the damage done until later. It reads so much like real life. When these huge events happen nobody is ever able to fathom the scope of it at first. Even those prepared (as much as possible) for the idea of something on that scale happening.
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Marie Brennan
“The dragon within my heart stirred, shifting her wings, as if remembering they could be used to fly.”
Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons

Nnedi Okorafor
“Olo, Remi, Kwuga, Nur, Anajama, Rhoden. Only Olo and Remi were in my group. Everyone else I met in the dining area or the learning room where various lectures were held by professors onboard the ship. They were all girls who grew up in sprawling houses, who’d never walked through the desert, who’d never stepped on a snake in the dry grass. They were girls who could not stand the rays of Earth’s sun unless it was shining through a tinted window.

Yet they were girls who knew what I meant when I spoke of “treeing.” We sat in my room (because, having so few travel items, mine was the emptiest) and challenged each other to look out at the stars and imagine the most complex equation and then split it in half and then in half again and again. When you do math fractals long enough, you kick yourself into treeing just enough to get lost in the shallows of the mathematical sea. None of us would have made it into the university if we couldn’t tree, but it’s not easy. We were the best and we pushed each other to get closer to “God.”
Nnedi Okorafor, Binti

Scott Hawkins
“You're really extra fuckin special under arrest”
Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char
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Marie Brennan
“A husband willing to fund a library for his bookish wife is not so easy to obtain; most would see it as a pointless expense. You might, however, find one willing to share his library.”
Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons

John Scalzi
“I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.”
John Scalzi, Old Man's War

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