Elizabeth

“There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“We go on having stupid wars that we justify and get passionate about, but in the end, all they do is kill huge numbers of people, maim others, impoverish still more, spread disease and hunger, and set the stage for the next war. And when we look at all of that in history, we just shrug our shoulders and say, well, that’s the way things are. That’s the way things always have been.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“Does the half-life of information correlate with the decay of our attention? Is the Internet a kind of temporal gyre, sucking up stories, like geodrift, into its orbit? What is its gyre memory? How do we measure the half-life of its drift?”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being