Sam Atkis

“On summer nights she’d haul her telescope out and search the heavens for some bright distance to distract her. How do you use a telescope when you’re illiterate? The same way you use a gun.”
― Seth Dickinson, Exordia

“Anna looks down at herself. She’s child-bodied no more. This is the Anna who came after the choice. Who lived with it for year after horrible burdened year.
She doesn’t want to live with it anymore.
But Mom waited so long to see her again.”
― Seth Dickinson, Exordia

“I have built a you within me, or you have. I wonder what of me there is in you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me. I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War