"I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling."

-- Maya Tiwari

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“Love wasn't a happening one decided on---to indulge or not, to partake or not. To feel or not. When it came, when it struck, the only decision left to make was how to respond---whether you embraced it, took it in, and made it a part of you, or whether you turned your back and let it die.”
“How can I see the future if it didn't already exist?”
“What occurs after revelation and paralysis?”

Source : Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Annihilation: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan
“There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.”
“In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.”
“You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”
“Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.”
“Los Angeles: A city I like because it's easy to tell who the strange people are.”

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