Rachel

“I let her leave without saying goodbye and sat in the pool of silence that followed the crash of the front door slamming shut. This was one of my first lessons in how you make the future: moment by moment, you seal the doors of possibility behind you.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“The glorious imprecision of language, the impossible endeavour of saying what you mean to another. She sees, with benevolent distance, how hopeless and winsome it is to be in this skin. How human it is to attempt a futile expression of your innermost secrets to another by vibrating strings in your throat to make an avalanche of sentences. To laugh, to sing, to cry out loud. How we all wish so badly to be heard.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Sister Snake

“Pity is a kindness,' Keiko says, her voice absolute. 'Each of us deserves pity, but no one in this forsaken land has the compassion to give us this kindnes. So we are stuck here in this humiliation, tortured day after day. There is nothing left for us but to bestow what little kindness we have onto one another.”
― Mary Lynn Bracht, White Chrysanthemum

“Millions of worlds. Billions of cultures. Quadrillions of people. Decillions of interrelationships. --And you want me to reduce it to order."
"No, I want you to try. For the sake of those millions of worlds, billions of cultures, and quadrillions of people. Not for the Emperor. Not for Demerzel. For humanity."
"I will fail," said Seldon.
"Then we will be no worse off. Will you try?”
― Isaac Asimov