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

“I feel sometimes it is so difficult to be conscious.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Christ,” said Peter. “Hell is a campus.”
― 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