Julie

“The four of us are going into the water, we are getting to the submarine, and we're going to turn off the pump. Once it's off, we're going to get the hell out of there. I hope to be in and out in a hour, tops.'

Tran turned to Vadim. 'Do you own a red shirt? I feel as if I should put one on.'

'What does that mean?' Vadim asked.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods

“The rage everyone of us should feel whenever an innocent human being is killed, the overwhelming sense that we have failed, collectively, that there is a rot in the way we have chosen to live, is present here, as it should be, as it always should be.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“Whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever that nonexistence is violated?”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“(In the hierarchy of migration, “expat” is largely reserved for white Westerners who leave their homes for another country, usually because the money’s better there. When other people do this, they might be deemed “aliens” or “illegals” or at best “economic migrants.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This