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“To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“There may be no end to such discoveries, if civilization survives. A truly decent and honest person will always seek to discover forms of oppression, hierarchy, domination, and authority that infringe fundamental human rights. As some are overcome, others will be revealed that previously were not part of our conscious awareness. We thus come to a better understanding of who and what we are in our inner nature, and who and what we should be in our actual lives. This”
― Noam Chomsky, The Essential Chomsky

“As though I am oriented only by your presence, or your absence. You are my north.”
― Janice Pariat, The Nine-Chambered Heart

“Her only friends on the estate were books, and books can talk but do not listen.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks