Kavitha

“We have all the tools to build our societies anew, reform our ways of thinking, fix the inequalities and end the discriminations, and choose earnest wisdom over snippets of information, choose empathy over hatred, choose humanism over tribalism, yet we don't have much time or room for error while we are losing our planet, our only home, After the pandemic, we won't go back to the way things were before. And we shouldn't. 'What we call the beginning is often the end...The end is where we start from' (~T.S.Eliot, Little Gidding)”
― Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“The simple desire to be comforted, to be assured of what no one can be assured of, that it will all turn out all right. That the things which come to pass, like ghost stories, like demon lovers, will all cut a path toward home. It reminded her of other things too, things she couldn't put into words but which still hurt.”
― Vanessa Veselka, The Great Offshore Grounds

“Do not be afraid of complexity, Be afraid of people who promise and easy shortcut to simplicity.”
― Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“Birds are not difficult to understand. Their behaviour tells me what they are thinking. Generally it runs along the lines of: Is this food? Is this? What about this? This might be food. I am almost certain that this is. Or occasionally: It is raining. I do not like it.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi