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“Bright lights provoked the soldiers to barge in and check the house for militants. Bright lights led the militants to chose your house as their shelter for the night. You lived with the dread of a fatal gun battle.”
― Basharat Peer, Curfewed Night

“Below me are artillery lines, curved stone walls built in overlapping crescents along the hillside. I wonder what scholars of the future will make of them, the stone circles of our war-torn generation.”
― Alice Albinia, Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River

“A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Ms. Found in a Bottle

“When a thousand people believe some made-up story for one month, that’s fake news. When a billion people believe it for a thousand years, that’s a religion, and we are admonished not to call it “fake news” in order not to hurt the feelings of the faithful (or incur their wrath). Note, however, that I am not denying the effectiveness or potential benevolence of religion. Just the opposite. For better or worse, fiction is among the most effective tools in humanity’s tool kit. By bringing people together, religious creeds make large-scale human cooperation possible. They inspire people to build hospitals, schools, and bridges in addition to armies and prisons. Adam and Eve never existed, but Chartres Cathedral is still beautiful.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century