The Ardent Swarm
Yamen Manai
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The equation was so simple that its simplicity rendered it unreal and almost unfathomable. No more bees: no more pollination. No more pollination: no more harvests. No more harvests: hello, famine.”
“What was easier to hijack than democracy? Like most things in the world of men, democracy was principally a question of money, and the prince had plenty.”
“Though a worker bee will make an entire spoonful of honey in her lifetime, she will produce no more than a bead of royal jelly, and that only when necessary.”
“Most of them hadn’t even chosen their spouses, and now they were meant to choose who would govern them.”
“He had carefully placed stickers with prayers and invocations on the back windshield: We will reach our destination if God wills it, Our lives are in your hands, my Lord, and other declarations that preemptively exonerated him from all responsibility in the event of an accident, and even granted him road privileges.”
“After the revolution, the time had come for democracy and journalism, but what came was an endless media debate in which politicians blamed one another for all that ailed the country.”
“the time had come for democracy and journalism, but what came was an endless media debate in which politicians blamed one another for all that ailed the country.”
“What you lose in strength, you gain in clear-sightedness. The trick is to reach the age of wisdom while you’re still strong enough to do things.”
“What was easier to hijack than democracy?”
“This species is as old as the world. What’s new is seeing it in Nawa.”
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