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“Security’ takes many forms. There is the security of knowing one has a statistically smaller chance of getting shot with an arrow. And then there’s the security of knowing that there are people in the world who will care deeply if one is.”
― David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

“Every day you step into my life, you make it brighter, and if you left the world, something in me would starve for you forever, as when some barrier rises to shade a plant, which still has light enough to grow some but will never again taste the unbroken sun.”
― Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars

“Longing. Look for it, in every crowd, and you will find it. Paint it any colour you choose: grief, nostalgia, melancholy, remembrance, these are but flavours, poetic reflections.”
― Steven Erikson, The God is Not Willing

“If you want to not die: you find out what people want you to be, then you perform it. People will let you know exactly what they want. You just have to know how to look. It's so easy. So ludicrously easy.”
― Sadie Avery, Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers