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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.
“For the greatest crime of the poor in the eyes of the wealthy has always been to strike back. To fail to suffer in silence and instead disrupt their lives and their fantasies of a compassionate society that coincidentally set them on top. To say no.”
― The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
― The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
“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
“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
“Either we choose to stay alive, or we give up. And if it's living we choose, then we do whatever it takes.”
― The Wolf Den
― The Wolf Den
“Be selfish," he whispered. "Be brave.”
― Babel
― Babel
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