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“And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.”
― Colum McCann, TransAtlantic

“The worst burden in life is what others know about us. But maybe there is one burden even worse than this. It happens when they don't know about us, it is what they think about us when, in silence, they force us to be what they expect us to be. Even worse is how we become it and I, chonorroeja, have become it.”
― Colum McCann, Zoli

“It was a complete disaster and no one had done anything wrong.”
― James Kestrel, Five Decembers

“We're living in the age of mass hypnotism. As long as we keep clapping our hands and believing, the captains of industry will take care of us.”
― Richard Powers, The Echo Maker