“Systems of racism and sexism and oppression are not systems we choose, but they are ones we inherit and are responsible for perpetuating, or not. When I hear so-and-so was "a product of his/her time" as an excuse for bigoted behavior, I remind folks that there have always been people in every time who did not agree with the bigoted systems they were born into and who actively fought them. The question is, which are we?”

“Systems of racism and sexism and oppression are not systems we choose, but they are ones we inherit and are responsible for perpetuating, or not. When I hear so-and-so was "a product of his/her time" as an excuse for bigoted behavior, I remind folks that there have always been people in every time who did not agree with the bigoted systems they were born into and who actively fought them. The question is, which are we?”

“They'd pay attention to me less. They'd judge me by gender, by looks, by weight before anything else. I automatically started every interaction at a disadvantage.”

“Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.”

“Nobody really knows what I am,” Nyx said. “Not until I put a bullet in their head.”

“It all came apart once you started caring for something outside yourself.”

“You started caring about somebody, you did stupid things.”

“It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring – you just had to get up more than you fell down.”

“There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.”

“It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.”

“What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars?”

“We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.”