Hannah Beachboard

“She gazed at Peter and thought, 'I wish I were the night, so that I might watch your sleep with a thousand eyes.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Her memory did that sometimes; she confused memories and reality, her imagination was too vivid, she couldn’t help it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men, generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why does it not encourage its citizens to put out its faults, and do better than it would have them? Why does it always crucify Christ and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“And if falling in love was discovery, was letting yourself be discovered the equivalent to being loved?”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis