Akshay

“America had begun as a colony and that a colony it remained, that is, a place still defined by its plunder, where enrichment was paramount and civil order always an afterthought.”
― Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

“Every good story has the same shape. The beginning establishes a goal, the more tangible the better. In the middle we watch the fight toward that goal. The end is what happens when it’s been reached, or when reaching it’s finally failed. What I always say when I teach is: the longer the middle, the better the story. The middle is when we still don’t know the outcome. That’s when we care the most about what’s happening. The longer you can keep the audience engaged in the pursuit without actually resolving that pursuit—that’s real mastery.”
― Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

“You see, bhai, the effects of war are always personal, but in fact, war is the least personal thing there”
― Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

“Maybe that was the secret to dying—to live a life with so much heart that, when you go, you are never really gone.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Codebreaker's Secret