Nino Cipri > Quotes

“This video is making me gayer out of spite,' Jules muttered, clear even from the other side of the room.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“Ava had never really had to deal with an emergency; just the slow disaster that was her life.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“Of course Jules was alive, they had never faced a challenge whose ass they couldn't kick, and they had the stores of righteous rage that all retail employees collected.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“She'd lived with fear and anxiety for so long, and fell into fits of dread and despair over the smallest things. Going to work. Making a dentist appointment. Grocery shopping. The light right after the sun went down, when she realized she'd accomplished almost nothing that day. All normal things that normal people could deal with, and she was never equal to the challenge of them. Catastrophe seemed to lurk around every corner, and she felt constantly out of control.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift!”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“Existence isn’t a gift, it’s a right, Jules had replied. But having to reclaim it every day makes life easier to appreciate, maybe.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“I guess I'm too much of a grammar nazi!" ... Ava wondered, not for the first time, why anyone would so proudly declare themselves to be any kind of nazi.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“I understand this was a stressful shift for you," she said. "Why don't you take the rest of the day off? You've got some PTO saved up, I think.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“I will trade you my soul for coffee," they'd said solemnly. Then, when they saw that all Ava had were Nifty! brand beans from PriceLow, they cringed and said, "Those only get part of my soul.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“We'll keep each other firmly on this earth.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“The unique layout of LitenVärld encourages wormholes to form between universes. These wormholes connect our stores to LitenVärlds in parallel worlds.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“they had the stores of righteous rage that all retail employees collected.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“LitenVärld accepts no responsibility or liability for any losses or injuries that wormholes incur, since they fall under the Act of God”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“It's what everyone thinks," Jules said. Their face - normally open, armed with joy and humor - was stony and closed off. "Like doing things my own way is the most ridiculous shit they've ever heard of, even though it's the only way I've ever been happy. Nobody says it to my face, but everyone here treats me like it's a miracle I've gotten this far on my own”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“Derek hesitated; not because he didn't remember, but because a predatory luxury toilet that camouflaged itself felt impossible to say.”
― Nino Cipri, Defekt

“Existence isn’t a gift, it’s a right…but having to reclaim it every day makes life easier to appreciate, maybe.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“It was hard to articulate what Ava wanted, even to herself. She didn’t want to find Jules and run straight back into their arms. But she’d felt something new growing between them, something fragile but important. And she wanted to protect that, nourish it, and see it mature.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“Every world has it's monsters. I've been watching the news and yours is no exception.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“It was the most obnoxiously heterosexual thing Ava had seen since the last St. Patrick's Day parade.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“but Ava could hear everything Jules was feeling in those two words: grief, but also acceptance,”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“The showrooms sat next to each other uneasily, like habitats in a hyper-condensed zoo. Here was the habitat for the Pan-Asian Appropriating White Yoga Instructor, complete with tatami mats and a statue of Shiva; next”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“It's okay," Jules said. They looked....not calm, exactly, but not scared. They looked, as they had for most of their trip, thrilled that they weren't getting misgendered while answering customers' stupid questions about how much weight a towel rod could really hold.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“She’d lived with fear and anxiety for so long, and fell into fits of dread and despair over the smallest things. Going to work. Making a dentist appointment. Grocery shopping. The light right after the sun went down, when she realized she’d accomplished almost nothing that day. All normal things that normal people could deal with, and she was never equal to the challenge of them. Catastrophe seemed to lurk around every corner, and she felt constantly out of control.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“It showed me that there were infinite possibilities, at all times. After I made captain of the Anahita, I worried over every decision, doubted whether I was brave or smart or strong enough to pull my mission off and protect my crew. I could remind myself that somewhere in the multiverse of possibility, there existed a world where I was all of those things. Maybe it was the world that I already lived in.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“She didn’t know if Jules was dead. They were Schrödinger’s Cat at this point, alive and dead and all points in between until Ava made a choice to find out.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“Every world has its monsters. I’ve been watching the news, and yours is no exception.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna

“Two small words could never encompass everything you have to apologize for.”
― Nino Cipri, The Shape of My Name

“To go where she wanted, she had to get lost, and it seemed almost instinctual to do that now.”
― Nino Cipri, Finna