Kristen Rogers

“We are powerful enough to light the world at night, to artificially refrigerate food, to leave Earth’s atmosphere and orbit it from outer space. But we cannot save those we love from suffering. This is the story of human history as I understand it—the story of an organism that can do so much, but cannot do what it most wants.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“What I am is the Indian who can’t die. I’m the worst dream America ever had.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

“Elias stared at her. As Dora considered his face, she became convinced that there were tears there.
"Oh, bother," Dora sighed. "I am about to flout propriety, Lady Carroway. Do be kind to me, please."
She wrapped her arms around the magician tightly—and felt him crumble away against her.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul

“You can’t stop a country from happening, Good Stab.” “But we were already a nation,” he said up to me. “We didn’t ask you to come.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter