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“A map is a two-dimensional representation with arbitrary symbols and incised lines that decide who is to be our enemy and who is to be our friend, who deserves our love and who deserves our hatred and who, our sheer indifference.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“While religions clash to have the final say, and nationalisms teach a sense of superiority and exclusiveness, superstitions on either side of the border coexist in rare harmony.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“I know the popcorn was stale and had the texture of moistened cardboard between my teeth.”
― Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
― Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
“You take a poor, ignorant population, and give them arms, and say, ‘It’s yours. Kill.’ They’ll obey. The peasants, who were paid or forced to kill, were looking up to people of higher socio-economic standing to see how to behave.”
― We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
― We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
“The world is not at all short on this type of thing, it turns out. All down the years, words have been flung like pieces of shit, only to get stuck on a truck bumper with up-yours pride. Rednecks, moonshiners, ridge runners, hicks. Deplorables.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
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