Scott Cox

“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

“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

“Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think?”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“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