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“Then one day the man who would be president promised the deaths of his own citizens. The terrible became ordinary, to thundering applause.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing

“I was born in the year democracy returned to the Philippines. I am here to report its death.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing

“Nanlaban, under Rodrigo Duterte, did not mean only that a man had fought back. It meant he had fought and died. Nanlaban is judgment and justification, verb and noun, a shorthand for the dead bastards who deserved what they got.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country