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“War always seemed distant from Bogotá, like niebla descending on the hills and forests of the countryside and jungles. The way it approached us was like fog as well, without us realizing, until it sat embroiling everything around us.”

“All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”

“Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”

“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”

“Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer-except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs…But still, neither pigs nor dogs produced any food by their own labour; and there were so many of them, and their appetites were always good.”

“The animals were not certain what the word meant, but Squealer spoke so persuasively, and the three dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly, that they accepted his explanation without further question.”

“Maybe she didn’t have to be certain of anything. Maybe the human heart was just that messy, and all romance was deeply precarious, and the future was unresolved…Maybe that’s what true love actually was: an embrace of the chaotic unfolding…certainty was just a story the mind created to defend itself against the pain of living…You could choose to be certain, or you could choose to be alive”

“If you cling too hard to what you want to see, you miss what’s really there.”

“What cured them, in the end, was belief”

“I leave it to others to make history.”

“But there are always flies and itches. That’s why life is difficult to live. And these people know it only too well.”

“We’re working side by side for something that unites us - beyond blasphemy and prayers. And it’s the only thing that matters.”

“But weariness is a kind of madness. And there are times when the only feeling I have is one of mad revolt.”

“the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill.”