Aleja

“I was curious. I touched the flame simply because it was burning. Because discipline always seemed to me the pin that held the butterfly in the display case.”
― Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon: A Memoir

“If the price of that—the price of having a head full of dark imaginings—is personal suffering, then so be it.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“Two very different women in conflict with each other made for a more dramatic story than what was actually true.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“You have no concept of my level of introspection,” Julia shot back. “I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and I’d rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves