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“My favorite kind of science fiction is post-apocalyptic dystopia. But I just heard at the bar that genre is going out of style. Frankly, that’s not a future I want to live in.”
― John Hodgman, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms

“Thank all the gods,�� said Sphene. “I was afraid you were going to suggest we sing that song about the thousand eggs.�� “A thousand eggs all nice and warm,�� I sang. “Crack, crack, crack, a little chick is born. Peep peep peep peep! Peep peep peep peep!�� “Why, Fleet Captain,�� Translator Zeiat exclaimed, “that’s a charming song! Why haven’t I heard you sing it before now?�� I took a breath. “Nine hundred ninety-nine eggs all nice and warm…�� “Crack, crack, crack,�� Translator Zeiat joined me, her voice a bit breathy but otherwise quite pleasant, “a little chick is born. Peep peep peep peep! What fun! Are there more verses?�� “Nine hundred and ninety-eight of them, Translator,�� I said. “We’re not cousins anymore,�� said Sphene.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy

“Every ending is an arbitrary one. Every ending is, from another angle, not really an ending.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy

“Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman