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“A lot of books have a moral, some lesson about how you have to stay true to who you are. How it doesn’t matter if you’re different, you don’t have to act like everyone else, and that the most important thing is to be yourself. But those books never tell you how to figure out what your self is. They assume that you know already, and are pretending to be someone else for a while to fit in.”

Disappointed by the exclusion of trans folks.

"Time is a thief
and what we give away is all we can save.
So bring on the runaways! I know no fear.
Let life have meaning, if it must be brief."

"Equality
must be bitter, if you've always been on top,
and you're slapped awake out of a lifelong sleep."

"Am I the only person that dreams my dreams?
Does anybody else on this planet think my thoughts?
Are my ideas like darting lights I've caught?
Is my mind a net sieving through thought-filled streams?"

"If by some chance you finally win some minor complaint against us, well, Milrow Meat Solutions will simply file for bankruptcy. The day after that, another company will buy our facilities and hire our personnel, and we’ll all go right back to our jobs. You’ll change nothing. You can’t kill a company like Milrow, and you can’t hurt us. But in the meantime, we can hurt you a great deal."

"It was kind of cool to think of us all being on the same team. I wished I felt like that more. And then I wondered if it just took something bigger, like zombies, to make things clear."

When you realize you have privilege that not everyone else does: "I hesitated. I had no idea, really, but once again I was realizing that Miguel worried about a lot of things I just didn’t need to think about. My family all had citizenship; we didn’t sweat this stuff. But everyone Miguel depended on was in danger, all the time."

"I guess that’s what not having money does. It takes away choices. The people with the cash get to make the decisions, and you just got to swallow your pride."