Beatriz Baptista

“What do you, specifically, want from your unprecedented, never-to-be-repeated existence?”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“I want to be worthy of the great terror my existence inspires.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“People depend on their misfortunes. We curse them, but we're actually wedded to them, proud of them even.”
― Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls

“When people think about travelling to the past, they do it with this wild sense of self-importance. Like, ‘gosh, I better not step on that flower or my grandfather will never be born.’ But in the present we mow our lawns and poison ants and skip parties and miss birthdays all the time. We never think of the effects of that stuff… Nobody thinks of now as the future past.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!