Geno

“Rudi now rubbed his eyes, and it was as though he was shining them up, because when he turned, Lev could see them sparkling.”
― Rose Tremain, The Road Home: A Novel

“As I have always said, it’s a disaster to discover the humanity of your enemy, his nobility, because then he is not your enemy anymore, he just can’t be.”
― Colum McCann, Apeirogon

“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