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“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless,’” Arundhati Roy has said. “There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
― Leaving Before the Rains Come
― Leaving Before the Rains Come
“People who are careless of the land and of the creatures and spirits with which we share it are careless of themselves.”
― Leaving Before the Rains Come
― Leaving Before the Rains Come
“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”
― Life After Life
― Life After Life
“Don’t waste a single moment of your precious life! Wake up now! And now! And now! 6.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. That’s what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again. And just like that, you die.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
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