Hwee Yee

“I feel sorry for them, for as soon as something becomes impossible it slipslides out of belief entirely, whether it’s true or not.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Good girl,” he said reassuringly, in a way that struck her as being both patronizing and indefinably male. It made her skin crawl.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The imperial civilisation may well have absorbed numerous contributions from various conquered peoples, but the hybrid result was still alien to the vast majority. The process of assimilation was often painful and traumatic. It is not easy to give up a familiar and loved local tradition, just as it is difficult and stressful to understand and adopt a new culture. Worse still, even when subject peoples were successful in adopting the imperial culture, it could take decades, if not centuries, until the imperial elite accepted them as part of ‘us’.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind