Sarah

“No, she said, for the blight of the english will come to this remoteness as well. It will spread into this land and infect this land and devour the people who were here first; it will slaughter them, diminish them. The hunger inside the god of my people can only be sated by domination. They will dominate until there is nothing left, then they will eat themselves. I am not of them. I will not be.”
― Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

“He had bred them and mutated them and played all sorts of God, and now they wanted to know why and he had no answer.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin

“I've heard all the things they say about my people across the Colonies, Idris. Probably they think I'm a monster who'll come and kill their menfolk and make regular humanity a footnote in our triumphal histories, right? Or else we're sex-starved sirens who just need to meet a good man to forswear all our Amazon ways."

"You've seen some mediotypes."

"Executor training means exposure to some weird stuff. I'd rather have stayed a simple myrmidon.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shards of Earth

“Olli felt she’d seen enough shit for one day, but then the abiding lesson of the universe was there was always more shit.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Eyes of the Void