Kyle

“Sometimes you don't know you're going to throw a grenade until you've already pulled the pin.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“I can only say that although it seems that in childhood there is endless time for everything, in fact there is only enough of time for a tiny set of things to occur, and that those things happening, one after another, to a person, or to persons not cognizant of the incredible brevity of the event, the things happen at times as if to one who is asleep. Only after do we wake and wonder—how could I have never said this, or known that. What did I give up unknowingly? So often it seems there was a place adjacent to the one in which we were—and yet we never went there. It would have been the work of a moment to do so. But it never happened and now it never can.”
― Jesse Ball, The Repeat Room

“Everything offended Jessica, which is inevitable when you move through the world in search of offense.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

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