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“I think it's about the sea taking and taking, eating away at you slowly, the way that water, say, rots the wood of your sailboat. The last thing the sea takes from you is your life. So. I think it's about dying, slowly. The matriner's hubris isn't necessarily in his belief that he won't die, but his belief that the worst the sea can do is kill him.”
― Ava Reid

“Yes, people age horribly. They suffer strokes. Their bodies and brains fall apart. But the male ego? Firmly intact until the bitter end.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“She could see the future and its shape was already drawn, predetermined by patterns that had been set in motion before she was born — patterns of cruelty and dehumanization and oppression and trauma that pulled her right back into the place where the Trifecta had once stood.”
― RF Kuang

“Robin cast them an amazed look. "Are you telling me this country's going to fall because of academic territoriality?"

"Well, yes," Professor Craft lifted her teacup to her lips. "It's Oxford, what did you expect?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel