Rishikesh Mishra

“We celebrate the tree that stretches to the sky, but it is the ground we should ultimately thank.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“And worst of all, we knew this could happen. We've been impotently worrying about what a solar flare could do to electronic infrastructure since the 1900s. But my generation was so preoccupied with fixing the mess left by the unaddressed-and-fully-known-about environmental disaster of the previous generation that we committed the same sin of criminal procrastination against yours. I ask no forgiveness for this, because we deserve none.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“Ideas come to us as the successors to griefs, and griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some part of their power to injure the heart.”
― Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

“When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists.”
― Becky Chambers , To Be Taught, If Fortunate