Jonathon Conley

“When food meets needs at “multiple levels,” it provides a feeling of “completeness” and offers a satisfaction that’s altogether different from being stuffed.”
― Mark Schatzker, The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

“solipsist”
― Greg Egan, Axiomatic

“Did you travel with anyone you knew?” All children travel with a paid coyote. Some of them travel also with siblings, cousins, and friends. Sometimes, when our children fall asleep again, I look back at them, or hear them breathe, and wonder if they would survive in the hands of coyotes and what would happen to them if they were deposited at the U.S. border, left either on their own or in the custody of Border Patrol officers. Were they to find themselves alone, crossing borders and countries, would my own children survive?”
― Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

“MONO NO AWARE”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories