177 Quotes by Becky Chambers

The scrib brightened. An image appeared, and in an instant, there was no air in the room, no floor beneath her. She would have fallen had she not been sitting. And even so, she still felt like she was falling, but now, there was a warm pair of arms that would catch her at the end, a warm pair of arms she'd always imagined but could never feel.'Oh,' Pepper choked. 'Oh, stars--

You could live your whole life in one of those cities and never know how ugly it was somewhere else.

A moth was a caterpillar, once, but it no longer is a caterpillar. It cannot break itself back down, cannot metamorphose in reverse. To try to eat leaves again would mean starvation. Crawling back into the husk would provide no shelter. It is a paradox – the impossibility of reclaiming that which lies behind, housed within a form comprised entirely of the repurposed pieces of that same past. We exist where we begin, yet to remain there is death.

He no longer felt helplessness. He felt powerful. And that was what scared him.

Where do you want to go? I couldn't answer that. There was nowhere to go. There was nowhere but this. There would never be anything but this.

Hope isn't about predicting the future; it's about how you approach it.

The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and the person who cared for the little being that crawled out of it.

I'll never understand how the rest of you expect brand-new adults to be able to teach kids how to be people.

He was not a prisoner of those memories. He was their warden.