Cheryl Tan

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same -- people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.
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― George Orwell