Myrtice Kranendonk

“I realize that we are often wary of making these kinds of broad generalizations about different cultural groups--and with good reason. This is the form that racial and ethnic stereotypes take. We want to believe that we are not prisoners of our ethnic histories. But the simple truth is that if you want to understand ... you have to go back to the past ... it matters where you're from, not just in terms of where you grew up or where your parents grew up, but in terms of where you great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents grew up and even where your great-great-grandparents grew up. That is a strange and powerful fact.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Starving children have no liberties.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Boss? It’s not a joke.” Rudy’s voice had an edge to it. “The Colonel has been poisoned. It says arsenic. The prognosis is extremely poor.”
― Behcet Kaya, Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel

“People even travelled to Lapland, up there in the North, with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer