Shamseerkeloth

“Normality in our part of the world is a bit like a boiled egg: its humdrum surface conceals at its heart a yolk of egregious violence.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“It was as if I’d found myself in a performance of some extravagant, complex drama, and I didn’t have a script.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“because, in my life, fate has never been unwilling to lend a hand.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

“I am thus optimistic that historical studies of human societies can be pursued as scientifically as studies of dinosaurs—and with profit to our own society today, by teaching us what shaped the modern world, and what might shape our future.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel