Corban Addison > Quotes

“Traffickers will stop when men stop buying women”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“In places like this, it's hard to imagine that the world can be so ugly,' Thomas said.
'This is how it was meant to be,' Priya replied. 'The ugliness is our own fault.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“Evil prevails where good people do nothing.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“Yet her father had taught her that failing to act in the face of human suffering is inhuman.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“Someone once asked Mother Teresa how she dealt with world poverty. Do you know what she said? 'You do the thing that's in front of you.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“Healing, she found, required motion, intention, purpose - the reassurance that life was still worth living.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“Yield not to calamity, but face it boldly.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“Cynicism is the curse of the West. In India, we still have faith.”
― Corban Addison

“Hope may vanish, but can die not.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“On the other side of this darkness, a new day will slowly dawn.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“Because love is a riddle, as is life itself.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“The mark of wisdom is to see the reality behind each appearance.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“Life is a broken thing. It's what we do with the pieces that defines us.”
― Corban Addison, The Garden of Burning Sand

“The Tears of Dark Water is not really “about” Somali piracy. It is about the multi-dimensional fallout of Somalia’s disintegration over the past two decades. Piracy offered me a narrative framework to explore not only how a hijacking and hostage crisis could end in tragedy but also how the breakdown of social order on land could inspire young Somalis to take to the ocean.”
― Corban Addison, The Tears of Dark Water: Epic tale of conflict, redemption and common humanity

“The most dangerous thing is illusion.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“There is light beyond the veil.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“To do nothing would be to die one day at a time.”
― Corban Addison

“Let not your heart be burdened with what is past and gone.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“The dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“Idhar aawo!”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“The sights and sounds of human depravity were too much to forget. Is this hell? She wondered fleetingly. If not, where is God?”
― Corban Addison, A Walk Across the Sun

“One hundred and fifty years ago, it was a crime for people like them to read. White”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“The wound in her heart was real.”
― Corban Addison, The Tears of Dark Water

“There is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. —Marcus Aurelius”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“The truth is that everyone is to blame, and no one. When I've tried to force one person to shoulder the weight of guilt....it has only exacerbated the wrong. The knot cannot be undone. The strands are bound together for all of time. There is only one way to overcome it and that is to cast it over the side and let the sea of forgiveness wash it away.”
― Corban Addison, The Tears of Dark Water

“you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have power, your job is to empower somebody else. —Toni Morrison”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. —Frederick Douglass”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. —Navajo proverb”
― Corban Addison, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial