“[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities.”
― The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
― The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
“This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“Books are not meant to remain in your mind, but in your heart. Maybe they exist in your mind too, but as something more than memories. At a crossroads in life, a forgotten sentence or a story from years ago can come back to offer an invisible hand and guide you to a decision. Personally, I feel like the books I've read led me to make the choices I've made in life. While I may not remember all the details, the stories continue to exert a quiet influence on me.”
― Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
― Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
“Significant sections of the electorate probably understand that climate change negotiations may have the effect of changing their country’s standing in the world’s hierarchies of power as well as wealth: this may indeed form the basis of their resistance to climate science in general. The refusal to”
― The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
― The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
“We remember only what we want to remember.”
― Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories
― Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories
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