Put people in a cage and they will devote themselves to escaping it, not cooperating with those who caged them. - N. K. Jemisin

At least I’m done with adolescence. Never could stand it; if I don’t want to kill someone, I want to have sex with them.

Those with power would always find some way to exert it over those who didn’t.

I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me, I said. I want to be myself.
Don't be a child.
I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. What?
You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I'm tired of your whining.