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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
4.0

"This island is a beautiful place despite being filled with fools and savages."

"We must all find pointless causes to live for, or why bother with breath?"

"You wrote the word 'love' on this note. This is not natural.'
'Marriage is not natural. Cutlery isn't, nor is religion. It's all man-made shit.' "

"There are good reasons humans can't converse with animals, except after death. Because animals wouldn't stop complaining, and that would make them harder to slaughter. The same may be said for dissidents and insurgents and separatists and photographers of wars. The less they are heard, the easier they are forgotten."

"The dawn has broken, and the busses have filled with office slaves and schoolkids training to become them."

"Evil is not what we should fear. Creatures with power acting in their own interest: that is what should make us shudder. How else to explain the world's madness?"