22 Quotes by Aliette de Bodard

I’ll never be what you are. I’ll never walk in your skin. But that’s the doom of all parents. And I can tell you that it goes the same way for everyone. We all stumble. We all fail. You always do the same thing: you apologize and change, again and again and again. There’ll never be a place where everything is right, but we can try our best to strive towards it. It’s the striving that defines us. That makes us different from them.

She says – because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied – “You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything.

The lie wasn’t meant to be believed. It was just social grease, intended to keep wheels turning.

Life is too short to be ringed by other people’s expectations of proper behavior.