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“Oh, well, dearie, a woman's a different thing entirely! Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark." Moss's eyes shone with a weird brightness in their red rims and her voice sang like an instrument. "I go back into the dark! Before the moon I was. No one knows, no one knows, no one can say what I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who'll ask the dark its name?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu

“I asked my phone if it was connected to the internet and it told me that it had a very close relationship with the internet. I attempted to pull up a web page and it informed me that it was not that kind of relationship.”
― T. Kingfisher, A House With Good Bones

“It’s delicious,” Dex said. “There’s basically nothing savory that can’t be improved by adding an onion.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“Having a cat around means that there are never any unexplained noises. If something crashes or thumps or goes bump in the night, you think, 'It's that damn cat again', and don't worry about it.”
― T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones