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“Like most people in the world, then as well as now, we grew up between shouting and silence. Some of us made up our own minds, others had their minds made up for them.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

“Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half sorrow.”
― John B. Hayes, Sub-merge

“It made me realize how literature can join humans in a bond of quiet intimacy the way almost nothing else can.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

“Nothing made me forget the world like reading did. Nothing made me think about the world like reading did. Nothing else filled me up. Nothing else emptied me out. Sentences and paragraphs would drift through my head like clouds.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me