Sam Bateman’s Reviews > Babel > Status Update

“…. It’s a war happening in a foreign land that they can’t even imagine. It’s too distant for them to care.”
“What makes you so sure of that?”
“Because I didn’t… I didn’t, even though I’d been told time and time again how awful things were. It took witnessing it happening in person…. Even then, I tried my hardest to look away. It’s hard to accept what you don’t want to see.”

“History isn’t a premade tapestry that we’ve got to suffer, a closed world with no exit.”