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Katabasis
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“Alt academia,” they called it, like it was some punk and rebellious lifestyle, like failing at the single thing you’d been trained to do made you cool.
“No mere snowfall could keep her from enjoying this day, especially since the morning was starting with coffee—glorious coffee.”
― Evergreen Chase
― Evergreen Chase
“It is nearly impossible to be sad when eating a blueberry muffin. I’m pretty sure that’s a scientific fact.”
― A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
― A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
“For this scribe has read a great many of these accounts and taken away another lesson: that to be a woman is to have your story misremembered. Discarded. Twisted.”
― The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
― The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
“Perhaps another storyteller long ago decided this was best, just as I briefly held back the truth from you. Or maybe it was an honest mistranslation. We will likely never know.”
― The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
― The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― Babel
― Babel
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