Amy

“We are the bridge generations, the intermediaries, the ones who do the work so that our descendants will be ready.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“You know, for all the lecturing I’ve heard about how emotional women supposedly are, we have nothing on the men I’ve known.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold

“Anden sometimes wished he could travel back in time to reassure his eighteen-year-old self that he would find his own way after all—but then again, it would’ve been cruel, at that age, to learn of all the other struggles and sorrows that were still to come.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy