Preeti

“No amount of science will stop a politician.”
― John Sacklin

“Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.”
― Donna Leon, Death at La Fenice

“when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“There was a time—until very recently in the scheme of things—when there were no wild animals, because every animal was wild; and humans were few. Animals, and animal presence over us and around us. Over every horizon, animals. Their skins clothing our skins, their fats in our lamps, their bladders to carry water, meat when we could get it.”
― Kathleen Jamie, Sightlines