Zaynab

“I understood not that his innocence didn't come from not knowing anything, but rather from having seen everything there was to see, understanding it, and setting it down. He'd let go of what I hadn't been able to.”
― Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China

“People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

“When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

“I voted for peace, even though peace seems like the kind of science fiction that posits a future utopia, sleek and bald and rational, without satisfactory explanation of how we get to there from here, this convoluted, bloody *here*, except by appealing to our better natures at critical moments, a long arc bending towards justice. It seems like science fiction, wrapped in a pulp cover.”
― Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall