Ivy

“It’s an ode to the enduring power of love. To wanting, and to the way the feeling can survive for the longest time. Even without having.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Two Can Play

“But of course it was worth it. It was the only thing that was worth it. She had been fortunate to find a vocation that made irrelevant everything else, and anything that made you forget to eat, drink, sleep, or maintain basic relationships—anything that made you so inhumanly excited—had to be pursued with single-minded devotion.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Love is self-sustaining. It doesn’t get weak and die when you don’t feed it. Even when I put it away”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“academia respected discipline, rewarded effort, but even more, it adored genius that didn’t have to try.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis