Pete Farlam

“… in a while my mother said, “I am your mother and your father and I love you double." And then the plane was alright, the sky was alright but my feet were still strangers to the sandals they wore. And there were still some unresolved issues: if I was going to be three times her size I would need three seats to sit on. So three free tickets, double, triple, a maths class. A sum to solve: What is double love divided by triple my size multiplied by free tickets divided by careless words? A cold furry moth on a frightened heart. That moth was my constant companion. I learned early that the safest place can be the most dangerous and that even when it isn't I make it so.”
― Arundhati Roy

“... democracy doesn't mean majority rule; rather, it means freedom and equality for all. Democracy is a system that guarantees everyone certain liberties, which even the majority cannot take away.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“History isn’t the study of the past; it is the study of change. History teaches us what remains the same, what changes, and how things change.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“Nothing made me forget the world like reading did. Nothing made me think about the world like reading did. Nothing else filled me up. Nothing else emptied me out. Sentences and paragraphs would drift through my head like clouds.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me