Geno

“He was not interested in absolving the attackers, but he had to admit if he had been born under the same circumstances he would undoubtedly have become a fighter himself, maybe even the same sort of man who had murdered his son.”
― Colum McCann, Apeirogon

“A dog lives for you. A cat just lives with you.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“struck him early on that people were afraid of the enemy because they were terrified that their lives might get diluted, that they might lose themselves in the tangle of knowing each other.”
― Colum McCann, Apeirogon

“Koshy Saar’s response is indignant. “It’s fiction! Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water