Lex’s Blog

'You seem to be clean,’ Terminus decided. ‘Do you have anything to declare?'

The point wasn't that you tried to live forever; the point was that you lived, and did everything you could to live well. The point was the choices you made and the people you loved.

Maybe that was it: the question of guilt handed down through bloodlines, the sins of the fathers visited on not just their sons but their friends, neighbors, and random acquaintances who happened to have similarly shaped ears. You couldn't just indict an entire people or in this case, Downworlder species—because you didn't like how a few of them behaved.

"Love, real love, is being seen. Being known. Knowing the ugliest part of someone, and loving them anyway. And...I guess I think two people in love become something else, something more than the sum of their parts, you know? That it must be like you're creating a new world that exists just for the two of you. You're gods of your own pocket universe."

“Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.”

“Saying that what you do isn’t important is like saying we shouldn’t bother learning how to read or write because it doesn’t keep us alive.”

“But, remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”

"Romance is something to engage in to get a clearer picture of yourself. In both good ways and bad."

"I'm asexual. That's what I am. There might be other possibilities. Maybe a year from now, I might identify differently. But right now, that's what feels right to me. I want to decide on a place that makes sense to me for my own sake, and no one else's."

"The important thing isn't to have others recognise that you're asexual. It's to decide the path that feels right to you."

"You don't have to conform to some generic idea of what asexuality is. If you think you're asexual, that's enough."

"They [asexuals] try to appear legitimate in the eyes of other asexual people and society. Because they don't want to say they're using asexuality 'as an excuse because they can't get sex even though they want it,' or because it's 'a trend.'"

"In the darkness of outer space...I thought Earth was the only planet in existence. But I have a wider view now. Everyone lives life carrying something different from the norm. The 'normal' I longed for when I was little probably doesn't exist anywhere. Everyone lives on their own plant. But mutual understanding is possible through communication. There's an infinite expansion of starlight. I just couldn't see it before."

"Whether someone likes or doesn't like somebody isn't for anyone else to decide."