Sabtain Khan

“The default assumption tends to be that it is politically important to designate everyone as beautiful, that it is a meaningful project to make sure that everyone can become, and feel, increasingly beautiful. We have hardly tried to imagine what it might look like if our culture could do the opposite—de-escalate the situation, make beauty matter less.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“I will sing to you. As your ship burns and your soul flees, I will sing. To the contest we had.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Starsight

“If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“This is the Kitsen Unity Ship Swims Against the Current in a Stream Reflecting the Sun,”
― Brandon Sanderson, Starsight