Status Updates From Escape de Viena

"hope is the thing with feathers—that perches in the soul.”

"if there was one thing definitive about the argument of race, it was that it derived from the imbalance of power; in the world of ruo rou qiang shi—the strong devoured the meat of the weak—the weak were doomed to be vulnerable."

"in the dead of night, hundreds of thousands of people, the disillusioned, the dehumanized, the despairing, sought passage out of vienna."