Katie

“Santa Cruz was the safest place on Earth I could imagine: my sweet hometown, where the forests kissed the beaches on foggy mornings and their tender whispers liked you to sleep at night”
― Manjula Martin, The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

“What could put an end to the worst of the internet? Social and economic collapse would do it, or perhaps a series of antitrust cases following by a package of hard regulatory legislation that would somehow also dismantle the internet's fundamental profit model. At this point it's clear that collapse will almost definitely come first”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“I didn't know how to explain to him that there was no handicapping the current heat of the human race. One simply had to run”
― Manjula Martin

“This will serve as a foretaste to the torment of hell which consists in having to review one's entire life with the knowledge that comes of hindsight, where the worst thing is not the confrontation with obvious misdeeds but with deeds one once considered worthy”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena