Alexandria Chamberlain

“You can’t shoot me; I’m rich!” Yizhi slips through the opening created.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“One model of nostalgia sees it as a psychological response to trauma and discontinuity. A defence mechanism. Big social changes can conjure it. Wars, revolutions, 9/11. People feel dislocated, so they conjure an imaginary past they long to return to. This fantasy place of safety. So nostalgia is emotional and psychological, but it’s also political. Highly manipulatable, either politically or in the marketplace. And that’s what my book’s about. Specifically, on how material history and nostalgia and politics coincide.” She waves her hands around the room. “All this stuff, you know?”
― Sin Blaché, Prophet

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

“Human beings are unknowable. You can never know a single person fully. Not even yourself. Even if you think you know yourself in your safe glass castle, you don't know yourself in dirt.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds