„It got to the point where she could close her eyes and map the universe. Stars dying, voids reversing, oceans freezing on planets far away. She could find it all somewhere inside. Sounds beautiful, but it was inconvenient. Why should she wake up in the middle of the night just because a volcano erupted on a planet orbiting another star? Why should she cry in the middle of a conversation just because the poles of some poor planet were melting into oceans? She began to hate the word middle. [...] The universe always knows when she is being disrespected. She is patient, but she is not the patient. And so lightning struck where it had to, and all the monitors linked to dark flesh went dark. And homegirl just quietly walked away. Content never to be in the middle of anything. Committed to always be in the middle of everything.“ (Alexis Pauline Gumbs in M Archive: after the end of the world)