Ebony "Interstellar Introvert"

“And somewhere in the middle of looking around the place and putting your pack down and thinking, This is home until I can escape it, you’ve suddenly realized that you know Tonkee. You’ve known her, on some level, all along. “Binof. Leadership. Yumenes,” you snap, and each word seems to hit Tonkee like a blow. She flinches and takes a step back, then another.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Complexity should be your excuse for inaction.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“They say that the mind cannot remember pain; I say it barely matters, for even if the physical sensation is lost, our recollection of the terror that surrounds it is perfect.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“Compulsions never stand up to confrontation with reality,”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame