62 Quotes

“it's like a squid in love with the sky.”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

“Fifth grade was fourth grade with something wrong. Nothing changed outright. Instead it teetered. You'd pushed futility at Public School 38 so long by then you expected the building itself would be embarrassed and quit. The ones who couldn't read still couldn't, the teachers were teaching the same thing for the fifth time now and refusing to meet your eyes, some kids had been left back twice and were the size of janitors. The place was a cage for growing, nothing else. School lunch turned out to be the five-year-plan, the going concern. You couldn't be left back from fish sticks and sloppy joes. You'd retain at the least two thousand half-pint containers of vitamin D-enriched chocolate milk.
Two black guys from the projects, twins, were actually named Ronald and Donald MacDonald. The twins themselves only shrugged, couldn't be made to agree it was incredible.”
― Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude

“وما العيب يا ”حجيزى“، دائما ناس ينزلون الجثث ٕالى القبور، وناس يجلسون على مؤ ِّخراتهم يدخنون سجائر، والكل يركبه الحزن!”
― أشرف الخمايسي, منافي الرب

“More to the point, however, is that China could become the cradle of this disease only because global tendencies were present in the concentrated form.”
― Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century