Kristina

“After quarantine, when kids returned to the classroom, there was a chance to start over, to make education work better, but it’s the same old impractical schedule as when Diana was a kid, and that was some eighty years ago.”
― Katie M. Flynn, The Companions

“Throughout history, all dictators, tyrants, and oppressors, whatever their ideology—whether Aryan, African, Asian, Arab, Slav, or any other racial background; whether defenders of popular revolutions, or the privileges of the upper classes, or God’s mandate, or martial law—have had one thing in common: the vicious persecution of the written word. Books are extremely dangerous; they make people think.”
― Antonio Iturbe, The Librarian of Auschwitz

“Do moons choose the planets they orbit? Do planets choose their stars? Who am I to deny gravity, Aurora? When you shine brighter than an constellation in the sky?”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time