Yvone Suns

“significant concentrations of Hutu Power military and militia members among the IDPs [International Displaced Persons] made the camps themselves a major threat ... As in the border camps, interahamwe agents didn't hesitate to threaten and attack those who wished to leave Kibeho, fearing that a mass desertion of the civilian population would leave them isolated and exposed.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

“وقتی مسافرها از عزیزترین خاطراتشان حرف می‌زنند، به‌هیچ‌وجه قادر نیستند حقیقت را پنهان کنند. زن‌وشوهری ممکن است ادعا کنند عاشق همدیگران، اما ما به‌جای عشق در وجودشان بیزاری، خشم، یا حتی نفرت می‌بینیم. یا نوعی بیهودگی عمیق، گاهی فقط ترس از تنهایی و بس.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

“... if you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Rife's key realization was that there's no difference between modern culture and Sumerian. We have a huge workforce that is illiterate or alliterate and relies on TV-which is sort of an oral tradition. And we have a small, extremely literate power elite-the people who go into the Meatverse, basically-who understand that information is power, and who control society because they have this semimystical ability to speak magic computer languages.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash