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"The spectacle of advertising creates images of false beauty so suave and so impossible to attain that you will hurt inside and never even know where the hurt came from." - Rob Montgomery, quoted in The Anticapitalist Book of Fashion, Tansy E. Hoskins

". . .the tick of cooling metal. . ." - Persephone Station, Stina Leicht

"Fast fashion is a false emancipation that is disastrous for the global working class." - The Anticapitalist Book of Fashion, Tansy E. Hoskins

"I want to be alone together. . .I want to be a context for you, and you for me. I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means togehter." - This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

"I don't know how it's done between such as us, Red, but I can't wait to find out together." - This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

"They schemed in the desert and danced and yipped for the joy of it because they were free, and no one saw that they meant their dance to be the city's dance, and for the city to be free. That, if they could not have a fierce joy in their struggle, then they were not truly free, but governed by fear and doubt." - Strange Bird, Jeff VanderMeer

"Crazy isn't a helpful word, is it? It's not really a thing, it's just a catch-all for behavior that we can't understand the motivation behind." - Catalyst Gate, Megan E. O'Keefe

"I'm not a person, but a place where bad things happen." - Model Home, Rivers Solomon

"All the words I still cannot say haunt me. I don't want anyone to know the truth of me." - Model Home, Rivers Solomon

". . .if you're waiting for some admittance of wrongdoing, of mistake, if you need an apology to move on, it will never come. Never. The realization that validation of the pain will never come from those who inflicted the pain has the power to obliterate. Did it happen? If they're not apologizing, if they're not admitting they've done it, did they do it?" - Model Home, Rivers Solomon

"I think of the Omelas boy I am holding in my psyche. Of all that has been done to him. How might the story of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas be different had there been internet? . . .A journalist sees the Omelas child, takes a video, and walks away. He posts the video with the comment 'Why isn't anybody talking about this?' Perhaps the result would then be everyone talking about it, but still, what of the Omelas child?" - Model Home, Rivers Solomon

"She was Harrowhark alone in front of the mirror again. A nonsense, a monster, an alien geometry, a lonesome squawk of a person. She was nine and she'd made a mistake. She was seventeen and she'd made a mistake. Time had repeated itself. Harrow would be tripping over herself for her whole existence, a frictionless hoop of totally fucking up." - Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

"I said, 'Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.' They all stopped talking and stared at me." - Artificial Condition, Martha Wells