Kyle

“I think if you live long enough," Nico said, "you become a migrant from another timeline. There's the world you learn to navigate as you enter adulthood, and then that world slips away from you by degrees, and after a while there's nothing left of it, but you're still here.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Exit Party

“This is what happens when you teach people to be believers, not questioners.” You’re right, in that the systems make it easier to follow rather than speak out, and if one has always been a follower, why not follow along with these shiny promises?”
― Portia Elan, Homebound

“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

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