Ruchi

“More dizzying in its diversity, but also bound more tightly together in ways that I had not expected, it is a nation quite different from the one I thought I knew.”
― Elizabeth Pisani, Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation

“Indonesia is forever curdling the expectations.”
― Elizabeth Pisani, Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation

“it sounds from the past,”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“THE RICH HAVE FAT BELLIES. They swagger until the world swings to one side. They see more food and they lunge at it. They have a permanent hunger, you see. For the poor, it’s different. They’ve never known the taste of fullness, so they scramble for leftovers, not because they are hungry but because they want to know fullness, the contentment that makes the rich think the world is theirs.”
― Lola Shoneyin, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives