Annie

“If power is a thing to be had, it must be capable of possession. But power is not any discrete size or weight. Power is continuous. Power is parabolic. Say you are given some power, which then increases your capacity to accumulate more power. Your capacity for power increases exponentially in relation to the actual power you have gained. Thus, to gain power is to be increasingly powerless. If the more power one has, the less one has, then is it the thing or are you?”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“People say you have to have faith because believing is irrational. So I end up thinking that the more irrational things seem, the more likely they are to be true.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

“There’s just something about Asians that makes reality a little too real, overcomplicates the clarity, the duality, the clean elegance of BLACK and WHITE, the proven template and so the decision is made not in some overarching conspiracy to exclude Asians but because it’s just easier to keep it how we have it.”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown