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Category: Becky Chambers

Feelings are relative. And at the root, they’re all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales.

experiences, feelings

Um, right, okay. Have you taken any courses in interspatial manipulation? Probably not, huh?”“Can’t say that I have.”“Space-time topology?”“Nope.”“Transdimensional theory?”Rosemary made an apologetic face.“Aww!” said Kizzy, clasping her hands over her heart. “You’re a physics virgin!

physics, virgin

All the things I’ve done to my body, I’ve done out of love.

Tweaking your body , it’s all about trying to make your physical self fit with who you are inside

Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.

There are few better ways to get to know how a species thinks than to learn their art.

No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.

anger, boredom, grief, happiness

Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.

friendship, homesickness

Nobody should be alone,” Sissix said. “Being alone and untouched…there’s no punishment worse than that. And she’s done nothing wrong. She’s just different.

That’s not the same. What happened to you, to your species, it’s… it doesn’t even compare.”Why? Because it’s worse?’She nodded.’But it still compares. If you have a fractured bone, and I’ve broken every bone in my body, does that make your fracture go away? Does it hurt you any less, knowing that I am in more pain?”No, but that’s

aliens, mental-health, pain, relative

I love learning. I love history. But there’s history in everything. Every building, everybody you talk to. It’s not limited to libraries and museums. I think people who spend their lives in school forget that sometimes. -Tak

No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.

anger, boredom, grief, happiness