Status Updates From Those Beyond the Wall (The ...

"That kind of destruction and hate doesn't have a border. It always comes back. It eats and eats and eats, finding new targets until there's no one left to swallow but the ones who sent it. It starts with those outside the wall, and it ends with the whole world."

Johnson has done it again! Such majestic writing. The queer representation doesn't feel forced. The characters merely exist, in their fullness. I've purposely postponed finishing this because Johnson doesn't have e another book for me to immediately dive into. What a shame!! Every line is unrelentessly moving. Absolutely brilliant.

That’s all growth is, getting too big to stay somewhere that used to feel good. Just having one less place in the whole world that fits right.

I’ve been gone long enough to have forgotten how hard up the city is about genders. They want gender like a border, something fixed, something to be defended from trespass. We like genders like landmasses here, like puddles that congregate, evaporate, and re-form.