Keith

“That’s why you never hear politicians talking about ‘citizens,’ it’s all ‘taxpayers,’ as though the salient fact of your relationship to the state is how much you pay. Like the state was a business and citizenship was a loyalty program that rewarded you for your custom with roads and health care.”
― Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

“Every underground scene dies a long slow death as the tourists close in, until nothing’s left but posers ogling each other over the bleached remains. If”
― Cody Goodfellow, Strategies Against Nature

“The open secret of the clock, naked for all to see, was that we were only going in circles. After”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“What if an infection was a message, a brightness a kind of symphony? As a defense? An odd form of communication? If so, the message had not been received, would probably never be received, the message buried in the transformation itself. Having to reach for such banal answers because of a lack of imagination, because human beings couldn’t even put themselves in the mind of a cormorant or an owl or a whale or a bumblebee.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance