Sahar Qadimi

“When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night

“Sometimes, I think, you can look at a person and know they are full of words. Maybe the words are withheld due to pain or privacy, or maybe subterfuge. Maybe there are knife-edged words waiting to draw blood.”
― Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing

“She wanted to tell him that whatever happened, whatever they chose, one day they would have to come awake, everyone would have to stand up and confront themselves and realize that it wasn’t the Party that made them do it. One day, they would be alone with their actions.”
― Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing

“What happened if you melted a person down layer by layer? What if there was nothing between the layers, and nothing at the centre, only quiet?”
― Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing