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"All that laughing -- it amounted to something, right? I thought friendship was going to be like that forever. We would bicker, but we would still love each other and laugh. I expected my life to be a lot funnier. Life was supposed to be completely different. I think I‘ve found it hard to find people I can talk to, if I’m being honest. It‘s something I’m facing up to. I‘ve never had a friendship like that again. It was never that good and easy again."

― Nicole Flattery, Nothing Special

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"When God gives you more than you can tolerate, you turn to instinct. And instinct is a force beyond anyone’s control."

― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

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"People, it turned out, were mostly fine with being victimized in small doses. In fact, they seemed to expect a certain amount of deception, allowed for a tolerable margin of manipulation in their relationships."

― Emma Cline, The Guest

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"I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?"

― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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"The very term “cancel culture” is hopelessly non-useful, with its suggestion that the loss of status for the accused is somehow on a par with the suffering endured by the victim."

― Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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"What do we do with the art of monsters from the past? Look for ourselves there - in the monstrousness. Look for mirrors of what we are, rather than evidence for how wonderful we've become."

― Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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"There is no innovation that will ever spring from the minds of men that will not eventually be used for slaughter and control."

― Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall

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"Every innovation—technological, sociological, or otherwise—begins as a crusade, organizes itself into a practical business, and then, over time, degrades into common exploitation. This is simply the life cycle of how human ingenuity manifests in the material world. What goes forgotten, though, is that those who partake in this system undergo a similar transformation: people begin as comrades and fellow citizens, then become labor resources and assets, and then, as their utility shifts or degrades, transmute into liabilities, and thus must be appropriately managed."

― Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside

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"In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters."

― Elena Ferrente, The Story of the Lost Child

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"I soon discovered that I was getting used to being happy and unhappy at the same time, as if that were the new, inevitable law of my life."

― Elena Ferrente, The Story of the Lost Child

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"You should never pass up an opportunity to be kind. You could never not thank someone. You should never not say something nice when you think it."

― Christopher Moore, Secondhand Souls

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"So afterward, when you no longer love him, it bothers you just to think that you once wanted him."

― Elena Ferrente, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

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"Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me...I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition."

― Elena Ferrente, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

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"You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can."

― Elena Ferrente, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

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"It was always a strange thing, coming home. Coming home meant that you had, at one point, left it and, in doing so, irreversibly changed. How odd, then, to be able to return to a place that would always be anchored in your notion of the past. How could this place still be there, if the you that once lived there no longer existed?"

― Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

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"The further you distance yourself from the realities of what it means to be an animal in this world, the more you risk severing your connection to it. History tells us loud and clear where that road goes."

― Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

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"Because I know that no matter what, I’m wonderful."

― Becky Chambers, A Pslam for the Wild-Built