Emily Spangler

“My name is Alice Law. Sometimes I am very clever but most of the time I am not. I have been a good person sometimes, and a bad person at others. Sooner or later I will die. But before I do, I will try - I will try very hard - to make it count.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“I was there, I served my hours, punched my time card, don't forget. I did everything that could be done. Don't blame me. I was there. While his father sat timidly beside him, embarrassed probably by his peremptory manner. Afraid of alienating the doctors. Why even think about that now. The suffering of another person. Which he failed to stop. False show of competence only disguising the act of his uselessness, his failure to do anything, to make anything better, to make any difference at all.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“What Alice needed most then was a nice long holiday, and then perhaps institutionalization at some remote facility near the sea.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“She thought she’d learned to inhabit the impossible ideal: the girl who was eminently fuckable but unreachable, and therefore virtuous and perfect. The girl who was everything all at once.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis