Sai Prasanna

“We can talk and talk and talk about what the pain is like, but we can never manage to convey what it is.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“All of us who were there have a graveyard full of memories.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

“Women’s” war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. Its own words. There are no heroes and incredible feats, there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things. And it is not only they (people!) who suffer, but the earth, the birds, the trees. All that lives on earth with us. They suffer without words, which is still more frightening.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War

“There was so much news. News that was forever breaking, that there was never time for context.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet