Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic.

— Heather Anastasiu

Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.

— Heather Anastasiu

Don't you understand? I want to spend my life with you. I want you to be there when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.

— Heather Anastasiu

Everything was so much sharper without the Link fogging me--sights, sounds, smells. It was exhilarating and shocking and terrifying. I knew my emotions had grown too strong. They were dangerous to the Community. They were dangerous to me. But still, I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live. And that meant that I couldn't give the glitching up. At least not yet. Just a little bit longer.

— Heather Anastasiu

Having something to fight for will make us stronger than anything they can throw at us.

— Heather Anastasiu

He looked up, and I realized how close we were, both of us leaning in together. I blinked a few times, suddenly light-headed, but not like before when I'd passed out. Being so close to the smooth dark skin of his face, getting lost in the shifting shades of his green eyes, it felt like my insides were fluttering and melting.

— Heather Anastasiu

He pulled me closer until his lips breathed me in, until we were sharing one breath.

— Heather Anastasiu

His lips ever so gently touched mine, and suddenly I felt everything stirring inside me grow wings, let loose, and fly.

— Heather Anastasiu

History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell keeping themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.

— Heather Anastasiu

If we don't fight, we've already lost. Without hope, without trying, there's no point.

— Heather Anastasiu