Brian Cham

“Two or three years after the 1947 Partition, it occurred to the governments of India and Pakistan to exchange their lunatics in the same manner as they had exchanged their criminals. The Muslim lunatics in India were to be sent over to Pakistan and the Hindu and Sikh lunatics in Pakistan asylums were to be handed over to India. It was difficult to say whether the proposal made any sense or not.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto, Toba Tek Singh

“There’s nothing to fear. Nothing at all. Over there, across the dark waters, on that far shore, there’s only beauty. Dogs can see it, you know. We can peer through the thin places between worlds —even through the veil between this life and the next. And over there you and I are already together, and always have been, and always will be. Part of you remembers. Part of everyone does. Hence those myths we’ve discussed so often—Eden, for instance.”
― David Bentley Hart, Roland in Moonlight

“Theories aren’t the same when you actually have to start using them.”
― Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake

“personality is how you respond on a typical day, character is how you show up on a hard day.”
― Adam M. Grant, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things