Angry River

“Pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“Dearest 0000FF,”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“We like the idea that there's always someone responsible for any given event, because it helps us make sense of the world. We like that so much that sometimes we blame ourselves, just so that there's someone to blame. But not everything is under our control, or even anyone's control.”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“Even poetry, which breaks language into meaning—poetry ossifies, in time, the way trees do. What’s supple, whipping, soft, and fresh grows hard, grows armor.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War