The Same Havoc Quotes

“Home address? You know it’s technically Blue. But in that house, with your parents, siblings, and the dog, too, you go back to Yellow. One small Yellow cluster far away from the actual Motherland that survives. When you’re in that house, some Yellow pieces manage to stay together, stable for a while.
We can give you the official membership. But your very Yellow name doesn’t make you Blue. And when you mix up all those languages in your head and Blue smiles, calls it funny and cute – with that subtle intonation that is both gentle and patronising – you understand the membership is only second-rate.”
― Milagros Lasarte, The Same Havoc

“they peer / down from a sky cracked open, (tear)staining / the ground dark. we are the same mistake / from different angles”
― Quinn Lui, The Same Havoc

“In their Vietnamese language, ‘anh’ was how one would address older men, male partners, and older brothers. It was also how these men referred to themselves when speaking to their younger siblings, their partners, or someone younger. So, instead of “I love you,” it was, “Anh yêu em.”
That’s how he’d asked her to live with him.”
― Vina Nguyen, The Same Havoc

“A city is not a city unless you also hate it”
― Lydia Unsworth, The Same Havoc

“I feel a tingling in my feet, as if they’ve gone numb. Or as if they want to fly. I detach myself from my feet at the ankle and float towards the robot who receives them into its open aluminium arms and adds them to the stew. As I can no longer stand on my own two feet, because I don’t have any, I totter over to a chair.”
― Sofía Ballesteros, The Same Havoc

“Madhobi would walk around the neighbourhood, foraging for stories. The connected roof allowed one to walk to all the houses in the para. This worked to her advantage, as she could walk all around the neighbourhood, listening to the stories of all its occupants.”
― Toonika Guha, The Same Havoc