Aster

“Hope is the weapon of the masses and the poor. Hope is the thread between brutal reality and the imagined heaven. Hope is the only medicine in the lives of people who are wounded by society. Hope is the chance to bring change. Those who mock the existence of hope can never understand the quest of the exploited masses for emancipation.”
― Yogesh Maitreya, Flowers on the Grave of Caste

“Because when flowers are alive, they spread beauty and when they die, no one cries.”
― Yogesh Maitreya, Flowers on the Grave of Caste

“The origins of the word 'anger' were tied closely to physical suffering. 'Anger' was first an 'affliction', as meant by the Old Icelandic angr, and then a 'painful, cruel, narrow' state, as meant by the Old English enge, which in term came from the Latin angor, which meant 'strangling, anguish, distress'. Anger was a chokehold. Anger did not empower you. It sat on your chest; it squeezed your ribs until you felt trapped, suffocated, out of options. Anger simmered, then exploded. Anger was constriction, and the consequent rage a desperate attempt to breathe.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Isn’t that funny?’ Ramy glanced sideways at him. ‘The British are turning my homeland into a narco-military state to pump drugs into yours. That’s how this empire connects us.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel