Marb Been There

“The thing about violence, see, is that the Empire has a lot more to lose than we do. Violence disrupts the extractive economy. You wreak havoc on one supply line, and there’s a dip in prices across the Atlantic. Their entire system of trade is high-strung and vulnerable to shocks because they’ve made it thus, because the rapacious greed of capitalism is punishing. It’s why slave revolts succeed. They can’t fire on their own source of labour – it’d be like killing their own golden geese.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“They only let you this be happy if they're preparing to take something from you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I am the one without hope, the word without echoes, he who lost everything and he who had everything”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“When it comes to elections, Filipinos are still fucking morons.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country