Swati

“It is axiomatic that one death is a tragedy, a thousand is a statistic.”
― Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

“Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Maybe he doesn’t really think it now. But sometimes things are said and they’re not just words. They are everything that one person thinks of another in a sentence. Just one sentence.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life