Sara Beining

“I was starting to think that half of the angst of a divorce wasn’t the loss of stability, it was coming to terms with just how lousy your judgment had been.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

“No president since World War II has contributed more to the militarization of the United States than President Bush,” wrote intelligence expert Melvin A. Goodman in 2013. “Under his leadership from 2001 to 2009, the United States fought two unsuccessful wars, experienced a financial crisis, initiated irreversible tax cuts that burden the US economy and compromised the rule of law at home and abroad. President Bush’s militarization of foreign and national security policy included the creation of an entrenched national security state.”
― Howard Bryant, Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field

“Our drones, our phones, our algorithms, our virtual realities, and our smart homes have all been built to shuttle around meals and data and other stuffs, turning space-time into an extension of our needs and wants.”
― Angus Fletcher, Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

“That’s what the gods do,” he says, “they spin threads of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land