Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Numbercaste Quotes

This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.

Every New Yorker thinks they’re automatically better than everyone else in every other city on the planet: even their unnems were a better class of beggars.

The only things I can’t offer you are children and politicians: the first is illegal and the second is expensive

Sometimes respect is as hard a currency as money is

What did journalists know of tech, anyway? Who gave a damn about the press? We were the Good Guys. Changing the World. Doing the Important Stuff.

Discrimination is not just racial now. It’s also about the kind of body parts you have.

On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet down the line.