Patrick Walinski

“One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!'

And a little later you added:
'You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.'

'Were you that sad, then, on the day of the forty-three sunset?'

But the prince made no answer.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“Her growing possessiveness felt both good and bad.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“Mobutu’s dictatorial reign between 1965 and 1997 created the violent free-for-all of today’s Congo.”
― Tim Butcher, Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country