John Roberts

“Yale asked if he still considered himself Mormon and Roman grimaced, hesitated. “They make it really hard to leave. It’s like trying to quit Columbia House.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“the Dutch West Indies Company, or WIC, plied the Atlantic. In order to control trade on the important Hudson River, WIC built a settlement called New Amsterdam on an island at the river’s mouth. The colony was threatened by Indians and repeatedly attacked by the British, who eventually captured it in 1664. The British changed its name to New York. The remains of the wall built by WIC to defend its colony against Indians and British are today paved over by the world’s most famous street – Wall Street.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The sum total of money in the world is about $60 trillion, yet the sum total of coins and banknotes is less than $6 trillion.7 More than 90 per cent of all money – more than $50 trillion appearing in our accounts – exists only on computer servers.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“steaming of cup of mint chai.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man