“We are now reinforced by the fact that we no longer desire or crave food,” she wrote to a friend. She began to see her own organism in the most clinical, mechanical terms. “I am now my own tool,” she mused. “I am also the craftsman
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“It was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that over-rich nectar and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“Living every day in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“but that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“Saeed and Nadia knew what the buildup to conflict felt like, and so the feeling that hung over London in those days was not new to them, and they faced it not with bravery, exactly, and not with panic either, not mostly, but instead with a resignation shot through with moments of tension, with tension ebbing and flowing, and when the tension receded there was calm, the calm that is called the calm before the storm, but is in reality the foundation of a human life, waiting there for us between the steps of our march to our mortality, when we are compelled to pause and not act but be.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“And it struck Obinze that, a few years ago, they were attending weddings, now it was christenings and soon it would be funerals. They would die. They would all die after trudging through lives in which they were neither happy nor unhappy.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
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