Anetta

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Mostly, my opinion was 'oh shit'.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) Dramatized Adaptation

“Once upon a time we had our honest living that was God and country. Then the world turns and there's no God anymore, no country, but it's still in your blood that coal is God's gift and you want to believe. Because otherwise it was one more scam in the fuck-train that's railroaded over these mountains since George Washington rode in and set his crew to cutting down our trees. Everything that could be taken is gone. Mountains left with their heads blown off, rivers running black. My people are dead of trying, or headed that way, addicted as we are to keeping ourselves alive. There's no more blood here to give, just war wounds. Madness. A world of pain, looking to be killed. ”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“At least I wasn't the only one who didn't know what I was doing.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red