“Is this your first time staying with us?" a woman at a reception desk for the third or fourth hotel said to her, and Olive wasn't sure how to answer, because if you've stayed in one Marriott, haven't you stayed in all of them?”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“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.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“Sometimes you don't know you're going to throw a grenade until you've already pulled the pin.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“Pandemics don’t approach like wars, with the distant thud of artillery growing louder every day and flashes of bombs on the horizon. The arrive in retrospect, essentially. It’s disorienting. The pandemic is far away and then it’s all around you with seemingly no intermediate step.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“Everything offended Jessica, which is inevitable when you move through the world in search of offense.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
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