Laura

“Monsters—the bad kind—show us the way forwards, as well as pushing us back.” That the old world is dying is widely acknowledged and addressed. The old ways of doing things no longer fit who we have become: the systems fail, break, decay, fall into corruption; anachronistic school curriculums and journalistic and political norms, social roles and customs, rules, laws, and institutions don’t offer us equipment to face the realities of our time, whether they feel like cages or outgrown garments or broken tools. Poverty and displacement, degradation and alienation are byproducts of voracious, ruthless systems committed to inequality and indifferent to human rights and the rights of nature, which is to say that they are violence by other means, and sometimes they are the violence itself.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

“Sawbridge used to say that a good historian tells us what’s in the records, and a great historian tells us what isn’t.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“Some thoughts burrow into your mind as thoroughly as a wasp larva burrows into an unsuspecting caterpillar. The trick, which I am still learning, is how to live without being devoured by them.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“I would die so that Yvanne would live, and in this way even my death would serve Dominion. The thought settled over me like snow, beautiful and numbing. I had always wanted to be of use.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting