Anda

“They shared indescribable pain. They had loved, they'd been loved, they had triumphed, they had lost. They were still alive. They wanted still to live, and more, to love again, despite.”
― Ruyan Meng, The Morgue Keeper

“But human beings naturally love expressing their opinions more than they want to understand other people. We always talk too much and listen too little, which is why the world is so noisy. Only when we understand this will we finally see progress in the world. That’s when humanity will be ready to use the internet as a tool.”
― Chan Ho-Kei, Second Sister

“An identity built on something that cannot survive a change in circumstances is an identity that will not stand the test of time. When we hit a hard season, it will fail us.”
― Ashley Morgan Jackson, Tired of Trying: How to Hold On to God When You're Frustrated, Fed Up, and Feeling Forgotten

“Isn't this the very glue that holds the human world together? Isn't this why we need other people, to give us the pleasure of knowing we are better than they are? Amazingly, even those who seem to be the worst-off take, in their humiliation, a perverse satisfaction in the fact that no one has it worse than they do. Thus they have still, in some sense, won.

Where does this all come from? Asher wonders. Can man not be repaired? If he were a machine, as some now argue, it would suffice to adjust one little lever slightly, or to tighten some small screw, and people would start to take pleasure in treating one another as equals. ”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob