Yatin Arora

“I truly believe that if I’d been softer, more obedient, more willing to play it safe, I wouldn’t have started working. The impulsiveness that once got me into trouble had also been my saving grace. The younger self I once saw as a walking disaster was really just a kid doing whatever it took to survive. The same fire that once burned me could now be the thing that fueled me.

I just had to trust that it wouldn’t consume me first.”
― Lukas Gage, I Wrote This for Attention

“What Alice needed most then was a nice long holiday, and then perhaps institutionalization at some remote facility near the sea.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“She was of course underpaid and overworked, but this condition was common among graduate students and no one cared much about it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Good jobs were vanishingly rare in academia. Alice very much wanted one. She wouldn't know what to do with herself otherwise. She had trained her entire life to do this one thing, and if she could not do it, then she had no reason to live.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis