Tuisku

“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. It is our constant anxiety about that violence, our memory of its past labours and our dread of its future manifestations, that lays down the rules for how a people as complex and as diverse as we continue to coexist – continue to live together, tolerate each other and, from time to time, murder one another. As long as the centre holds, as long as the yolk doesn’t run, we’ll be fine. In moments of crisis it helps to take the long view.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Why - for us and only us - is the other side of free will and free spirits an assault on our bodies?”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Like many others who went through that time, he was gripped by what he could think of only as a numbness, though he knew it was a feeling compounded of emotions so deep and intense that they could not be acknowledged because they could not be lived with.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“Things are so different now that it feels they were all different people then, like characters you read about in a book, not the younger version of your own self.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others