“How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“Now you understand how people like us work?”
“I believe so.”
“Tell me.”
“You work in horrible conditions and—”
“No! We work in our graves.”
― Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
“I believe so.”
“Tell me.”
“You work in horrible conditions and—”
“No! We work in our graves.”
― Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
“if you make the easy choice every day, then it becomes a pattern, and your patterns become your life.”
― The Nix
― The Nix
“But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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