grace!’s Reviews > The Overstory > Status Update

I keep having to close the book cause things are so trippy

That entire sequence was simply gorgeous. Human existence is no more complicated than a plum, but also just as intricate as one

IM DISTRAUGHT

“The product here is not so much books as that goal of ten thousand years of history, the thing the human brain craves above all else and nature will die refusing to give: convenience.”

“They can’t see that time is one spreading ring wrapped around another, outward and outward until the thinnest skin of *Now* depends for its being on the enormous mass of everything that has already died.”

Dude why would you not say you love her

“While her fellow engineers might overlook that error—the species is plagued by countless design flaws, after all—she’s also guilty of fighting against progress, freedom, and wealth. The race’s birth right. That’s not something her profession will ever forgive.”