Nineteen Eighty-Four

Whoever owns the past owns the calm. I check my sources before I check my temper.

The scariest room in fiction has no rats in it until you disagree with the government.

Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two makes four. I stopped arguing with my own eyes after this.

Newspeak isn't coming for big ideas first. It's coming for the small words that hold them up.

Winston wrote his diary knowing it was a crime. Journaling after this hit different.

The proles are free. Nobody bothers to oppress what nobody bothers to notice.

Doublethink isn't a party trick. It's my group chat every evening.

They broke him with the thing he feared most. I've been naming my fears ever since.

A boot on a human face, forever, Orwell promised it would be boring too. It is.

I loved Big Brother's absence. That's how the book wins.