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“Oh, if you’d been there, you know you would have raised hell,” said Zaffre.

Etoine shrugged. “I guess in the moment, I usually do. I just always expect something to stop me. That’s the trouble I’m afraid of—as if God will stop me. But if God wanted us to not raise hell, he would’ve made natural laws against it. You can’t go mistaking a human law for a natural law.”

“You don’t believe in God,” said Zaffre.

“I don’t really believe in laws either,” he said, and took another bite of the candy.”
― Isaac Fellman, Notes from a Regicide

“For the story of their lives in Stephensport, I have relied upon Etoine’s prison memoir. He wrote it when he thought that Zaffre was already dead, and he had nothing ahead but death on the gallows. He had no idea that he would live for decades after that, would outlive her again, would mourn her again.

Autoportrait, Blessé is what he called it: Self-Portrait with a Wound, or Self-Portrait, Injured. Nothing to do with the English “bless” or “blessing,” though you could be forgiven for thinking it, if you imagined my father had any hand for the sliding bow of a multilingual pun, or if you imagined he felt blessed.”
― Isaac Fellman, Notes from a Regicide

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“The endless loop of Green's slackened glutes sloshing in her seven-inch baby blue shorts was a revelation—in the renaissance of American volleyball, as a tipping point for trans girls in sports, and the upending of the stereotype of buttless Asian people.”
― Benedict Nguyễn, Hot Girls with Balls

“What if Walt tried to enter the mess and was mauled alive by transphobe trolls? Worse, what if she posted a video of her doing a girly little dance and nobody watched it?”
― Benedict Nguyễn, Hot Girls with Balls

“Being the center of attention wasn't a toxin; it was an overdue therapeutic intervention. A jolt of pressure that brought Six back to life.”
― Benedict Nguyễn, Hot Girls with Balls

“Green said "We need new trans representation" and then gave us a one-woman performance of Trans Victim, Trans Villain, and Trans Whore all in the same week.”
― Benedict Nguyễn, Hot Girls with Balls

“I sighed against her. "I know my fears are not rational," I said with apology, "but feel them nonetheless.

"Rationality," Mossa said, "is a tool; and, like any other, it is fallible, and only of use in some circumstances.”
― Malka Ann Older, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles