Kaitlin

“Ah, to be a human, for whom bliss can be achieved by mere ignorance! Here, in the kingdom of animals, ignorance is dangerous. The poor herring dropped into the tank lacks any awareness of the shark lurking below. Ask the herring whether what he doesn’t know can hurt him.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“They’d been custodians of the absurd, carrying out orders whose purpose they were unaware of, themselves having to submit to incomprehensible rules, and perhaps they had no more idea of our identity than we did of theirs.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Every pore of my being yells at me to go back to sleep, but I told Rocky I’d be back in two hours and I wouldn’t want him to think humans are untrustworthy. I mean…we’re pretty untrustworthy, but I don’t want him to know that.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“You may have ruined my life, June. But first, you gave me one.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow