“I could never stop you from loving anything. I don’t have the right. Nobody has the right to tell you who to love or who not to love, and equally nobody’s obligated to love you. If you were forced into loving them, it wouldn’t be love… being unexpectedly loved is so wonderful and terrible, isn’t it?”

Muir, Tamsyn. Nona the Ninth, page 63. Published by Tom Doherty Associates / Tor Publishing Group, 120 Broadway, New York NY 10271. 2022.