Emma

“Sometimes the world’s most brilliant ideas don’t work. Doesn’t make them any less insightful.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans

“everyone who exists is mentally compromised. We all accumulate false information over time, internalize it, and are influenced by it, consciously or otherwise. We are, in part, a product of these biases, as well as all other information we gather in our lifetimes.”
― Andrew Rowe, The Torch that Ignites the Stars

“It is difficult for anyone born and raised in human infrastructure to truly internalize the fact that your view of the world is backward. Even if you fully know that you live in a natural world that existed before you and will continue long after, even if you know that the wilderness is the default state of things, and that nature is not something that only happens in carefully curated enclaves between towns, something that pops up in empty spaces if you ignore them for a while, even if you spend your whole life believing yourself to be deeply in touch with the ebb and flow, the cycle, the ecosystem as it actually is, you will still have trouble picturing an untouched world. You”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“Jin smirked. “Why? There’s nothing else that interests me here.” Do not be charmed. He is not charming. There is no charming happening here. None.”
― Andrew Rowe, On the Shoulders of Titans