Ashten Kimble

“That’s what the gods do,” he says, “they spin threads of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“There cannot be science without the interrogation of closely held beliefs, as well as the demolition of personal aversions and biases.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“There is nothing lewd about biology, research, or basic facts, gentlemen, and you make yourselves fools when you try to classify the quest for understanding as obscene. The only thing more patently obscene than ignorance is willful ignorance. Arrest yourselves.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“longer I live, Burke, the more I have come to understand that extraordinary people are eroded by their worries while the useless are carried ever forward by their delusions.”
― Téa Obreht, Inland