Nayana

“There was the pessimism of the revolutionaries, as Keynes called it, the worry of those who thought the world so doomed that the only hope was to turn everything upside down. Then there was the pessimism of the reactionaries, those who thought the world so doomed that any sort of change at all would send civilization reeling into the abyss.”
― Martin Riker, The Guest Lecture

“She never thought of herself as living in a city full of children, but maybe every city and every neighborhood is full of children when you’ve lost your own.”
― Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

“This self was not really you, it didn't sufficiently encompass what you care about or what you want to say. Because at the end of the day, you are uniquely ill-equipped to convey to the world what you care about or what you want to say.”
― Martin Riker, The Guest Lecture

“Even an imagined togetherness beats being alone.”
― Martin Riker, The Guest Lecture