Ashley

“What the slave wants but can never have is not only freedom from the chains but also from their memory.”
― Ben H. Winters, Underground Airlines

“She didn't have what one would call a "profession," but I didn't know why she particularly wanted one; it seemed like she'd been infected by a very American idea of identity, to think that who you were mostly consisted of what you did to get paid—that seemed silly to me.”
― Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances

“These are the things that life is all about. These moments. It’s not about the rituals. It’s not about getting by. It’s about the stack of tiny little moments of joy and love that add up to a lifetime that’s been worthwhile. You can’t measure them; you can only capture them, like snapshots in your mind.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust

“Earth changes unimaginably slowly except when it changes suddenly and catastrophically, like right now.”
― Michio Kaku, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020