Gah-kai

“She was full of yearning. To leave, to be someone else, somewhere else, to start moving and never stop. And yet the more the innermost part of her screamed to move, the more she recognised that she was frozen to one place, one life.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“For the world did not change, this violence had always existed and would never be eradicated, men would die under the boot and fists and horror of other men until the end of time, and all human history was a history of violence.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“He could never admit to himself that it was death that had given his life meaning.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“They lived in them all or they died and every man with them; they had come to believe that to abandon one man was to abandon themselves.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North