Scott Cox

“Under a black moon, the silent hills gaze on a scourged charcoal land; their hopes pinned on that lone seed that shall one day usher in the dawn.”
― Chaitali Sengupta, Cross-Stitched Words

“Holocaust victims count because Hitler counted them. Six million people killed. We can all look at that number and rightly be horrified. But when you read through the history of atrocities against Africans, there are no numbers, only guesses. It’s harder to be horrified by a guess. When Portugal and Belgium were plundering Angola and the Congo, they weren’t counting the black people they slaughtered.”
― Trevor Noah, It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“In your absence now time is like an empty silence, where untamed memories scream with no threat of separation, in the cruel eternity of autumn.”
― Chaitali Sengupta, Cross-Stitched Words

“I can't fall any father than the ground,' says the wrangler to the men who predict that he's going to be thrown. There's a limit to everything, he means; and when all is said and done, strength is simply not to be afraid.”
― Ricardo Güiraldes, Don Segundo Sombra