The void is my friend.
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If you take any message from this trilogy, I hope it is to choose what’s right even when it seems hopeless–especially when it seems hopeless. Stand for justice, be a light, and remember what it is we were promised by the One who knows better.
With every hardship comes ease.
Acknowledgements, The Empire of Gold by S. A. Chakraborty
“I think it’s about convenience,” Thomil shot back, “like most mages’ endeavors. It’s much easier to tell yourself you’re a good person than it is to actually be one.”
Chapter 8: Rune Reader, Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang
While the terrible thing is happening–while the land is still being stolen and the natives still being killed–any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilization. But decades, centuries later, when enough of the land has been stolen and enough of the natives killed, it is safe enough to venerate resistance in hindsight.
Chapter One: Departure, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar Al-Akkad
“I think it’s better to feel,” Yoyo said, “even if it hurts.”
Chapter 18: Gaechon, Luminous by Silvia Park
On one of my first forays into publishing anything, an editor told me that I was too readable to be academic, too deep to be popular, too country black to be literary, and too naive to show the rigor of my thinking in the complexity of my prose. I had wanted to create something meaningful that sounded not only like me, but like all of me. It was too thick.
Thick, Tressie McMillan Cottom