Chai’s Reviews > 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World > Status Update

"A cloak of sadness engulfed her...The teachings that warmed her heart and brought her close to all humanity, regardless of creed, colour or nationality, could be interpreted in such a way that they divided, confused and separated human beings, sowing seeds of enmity and bloodshed."

"In the desert of life, the fool travels alone and the wise by caravan"

The more I'm flipping through the pages, the angrier I am at people who misinterpret religion and think they're holier than thou.

"Nations became civilized in three fundamental ways, they said : science, education and beauty contests."

Here we go again, with the heart wrenching unfairness of life and people.

"The possibility of an immediate and wholesale decimation of civilization was not half as frightening as the simple realization that our individual passing had no impact on the order of things, and life would go on the same with or without us. Now THAT, she had always thought, was terrifying."