Amber

“What were we doing, anyway, helping people become billionaires? Billionaires were the mark of a sick society. They shouldn’t exist. There was no moral structure in which such a vast accumulation of wealth should be acceptable.”
― Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley

“Every few months, Engineering went through a reorganization.”
― Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley

“Only people who live their lives very routinely, who have never known abject grief, can love Saturdays and Sundays. For me there was a rickety lonesomeness to them. It always seemed everybody had escaped somewhere I hadn’t been invited to.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“Though I could tell this was meant to sound playful, I felt insulted and humiliated.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot