One knock begets silence.

Two, and I awake.

Three or more together,

revolution shall we make.

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  • I want women in literature to be complicated, unpredictible—a mirror of reality. And I want it to spark a conversation.

    — Rachel

  • Books that make you feel deeply are the only ones you'll ever remember. But books that make you think will change the world. Entertainment is just a bonus.

    — Rachel

  • There are no new stories, only new ways of telling them.

    — Rachel, paraphrasing many brilliant thinkers and philosophers

  • With Asteria, I set out to reimagine answers to questions that still fascinate today. Wonder is real. So, too, imagination. We speculate. We muse. We create myths around life's greatest mysteries. What if the deepest secret of the universe is that those myths might all be true?

    — Rachel