Becky Chambers Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Perhaps stars were supposed to be viewed from the ground.

Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.

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

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