Katie

“The moral is clear: the choice is never between objectivity and interpretation but between an interpretation that is unacknowledged as such and an interpretation that is at least aware of itself.”
― Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities

“it was the small pleasures of his work that seemed in their simplicities to fill him to the brim.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“Above me a black oak wiggled in the ashy breeze. The tree was higher than the house. Its trunk was weighted with experience.”
― 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