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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.
“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
“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
“In the tales, she has no name, like too many women in stories of old.”
― A Day of Fallen Night
― A Day of Fallen Night
“Be selfish," he whispered. "Be brave.”
― Babel
― Babel
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