Katabasis

by R.F. Kuang

What Alice needed most then was a nice long holiday, and then perhaps institutionalization at some remote facility near the sea.

She could handle all sorts of cruelty. But she would not be made an idiot.

The Chinese believe you can see the past, but not the future, she explained; therefore you can only walk backward into the future.

you cannot just take refuge in feminism when it suits you.”