Ivy

“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

“Those who had nothing substantial to brag about bragged the loudest.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“The life of the mind, unfettered from commerce, was the only kind worth living.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“In all the stories, sojourners in Hell rarely perished there. It was in the world of the living where they met their tragic ends.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis