Rickey Ginger

“Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“The room had apparently been used as a prison by the Texarki before; the walls were filled with intricate but illiterate scratchings—faces, smiles and frowns, a sun, various interpretations of the male and female body. The wall looked to Blacktooth like the surface of a monk's brain, the scratchings on the soul that a man learns to live with and, usually, hopefully, eventually, to ignore.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

“I . . . I’m not someone who can just . . . leave someone behind.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“إن التودّد إلى الجنون أمر، ولكن عندما يبدأ الجنون بالتودّد إليك فهو أمر آخر يستدعي الإقلاع عنه”
― Rohinton Mistry , A Fine Balance