Kyle

“Oh, he took a job in industry,” they would say, as if “industry” here was a euphemism like a farm for old sick dogs. And they said it with a kind, patronizing lilt that betrayed what they truly meant: alt academia meant failure. The life of the mind, unfettered from commerce, was the only kind worth living.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Good games let you do something meaningful inside the game world, change something, and in the changing, the player is also transformed somehow. Comes out different than they were when they pressed start.”
― Portia Elan, Homebound

“Fortunately graduate school had prepared her for this, the constant managing of despair.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“The distance is unbearable if you let yourself dwell on it.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility