Jaksen

“The only road to equality—a sense of common humanity; peace—is sharing, my mother’s orange. When we share, you are not using your privilege to get me to line up behind you. When we share, you are not insisting on being my savior. Claire and I always looked for the sharers, the people who just said, “I have sugar, I have water. Let’s share”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“Poverty makes a crime of every indulgence.”
― George Gissing, The Nether World [with Biographical Introduction]

“Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police: An enthralling Japanese dystopia

“Nobody can do corporate rot more discreetly than the spies. Nobody does better mission creep. Nobody knows better how to create an image of mysterious omniscience and hide behind it. Nobody does a better job of pretending to be a cut above a public that has no choice but to pay top price for second-rate intelligence whose lure lies in the gothic secrecy of its procurement, rather than its intrinsic worth.”
― John le Carré, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life