Gah-kai

“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

“One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“He read and reread ‘Ulysses’. He looked back at Amy. They were the first beautiful thing I ever knew, Dorrigo Evans said.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“0 plus 100 equals 100. But so does 50 plus 50, only with more balance. Let this be a lesson in love.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale