The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

I am thankful to my physical existence on planet earth, that I completed my literary work from whatever mind I had left, before becoming mindless nonphysical.

Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.

- the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.

Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed.

I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

I started working when I was 9 or 10.

A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

the kind of kiss that said, I want to consume every inch of you and hear you scream my name.

I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.