Rama Dwivedi

“People who have cats live longer. There’s research. I think maybe it’s because you don’t want to live as long after it dies. My cat was very old, at the end he was almost blind, I used to wake up at night because he’d accidentally knock things over on the floor. I miss that all the time now. It’s hard to get used to a silent apartment.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Answer Is No

“The poverty of average Indians is a reason why most of my readers have a good life. It is very cheap to be middle class in India. Because the poor subsidize us all. They force the government and the markets to keep the prices of essentials, including water and electricity, very low, which we consume many times more than the average Indian.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“You could blame the war. You could blame the idiots who made the war. You could blame Kiowa for going to it. You could blame the rain. You could blame the river. You could blame the field, the mud, the climate. You could blame the enemy. You could blame the mortar rounds. You could blame people who were too lazy to read a newspaper, who were bored by the daily body counts, who switched channels at the mention of politics. You could blame whole nations. You could blame God. You could blame the munitions makers or Karl Marx or a trick of fate or an old man in Omaha who forgot to vote.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“The statue of Stalin’s boots that now stands in Budapest is not only a statue of a statue; it is a statue that commemorates the pulling down of a statue.”
― Alex von Tunzelmann, Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History