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Arkady Martine
“I carry exile in my heart. It animates my poetry and my politics; I will never be free of it, having lived outside of Teixcalaan for so long. I will always be measuring the distance between myself and a person who remained in the heart of the world; between the person I would have been had I stayed and the person I have become under the pressure of the frontier. When the Seventeenth Legion came through the jumpgate in bight star-snatching ships and filled up the Ebrekti sky in the shapes of my home, I was at first afraid. A profound discontinuity. To know fear in the shape of one's own face.”
Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine
“risk seeking; she'd always assumed that had been a necessary precondition for the sort of xenophilia that made a person fall in love with a culture that was slowly eating her own”
Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

Arkady Martine
“If she didn't know better, Mahit could think he was an automation. Even an artificial intelligence had more immediately apparent volition.”
Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

Isaac Asimov
“If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, the coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.”
Isaac Asimov, Foundation

David Grann
“During her lifetime, people across the globe furiously debated whether [Blavatsky] was a genius, a consummate fraud, or simply a lunatic. By that time, an excellent case could have been made for any of the three. Born in Russia in 1831, Blavatsky was short and fat with bulging eyes and folds of skin falling from her multiple chins. Her face was so broad that some people suspected she was a man. She professed to be a virgin; in fact, she had two husbands and an illegitimate son, and an apostle of asceticism. She smoked up to 200 cigarettes a day and swore like a solider.”
David Grann, Simon Schuster Ltd The Lost City of Z A Legendary British Explorers Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon.

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