Erik

“This story—which begins and begins—starts again here.”
― Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

“I confess I get a pain from reading valuable works by certain sociologists, political experts, economists, and historians who write in code. Hermetic language isn't the invariable and inevitable price of profundity. In some cases it can simply conceal incapacity for communication raised to the category of intellectual virtue. I suspect that boredom can thus often serve to sanctify the established order, confirming that knowledge is a privilege of the elite.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“They made you believe you had power; they hammered at your brain over the barracks loudspeakers; they commanded you in the name of your country; and they gave you your share of guilt so you could not wash your hands of it but would be forever bound by ties of blood.”
― Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows

“So Ryan was red as a beetroot. And Clara was black as yer boot”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth