“I had covered wars in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq and elsewhere, but the work had started to feel routine. I wanted to leave the journalistic herd, to find a project that would both daunt and inspire me. Facing down the Congo was just such a project.”
― Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
― Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
“...There's nothing kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.”
― Silas Marner
― Silas Marner
“It had taken me a full three days to read and study the police reports. My initial thought was to find what I thought I wanted to see, but I quickly abolished that idea because I couldn’t tell what I needed to see. There was just too much information. I never really knew where that break was going to come from and I didn’t want to miss anything.”
― Appellate Judge
― Appellate Judge
“Love is the Answer, God is the Cure!”
― Love is the Answer God is the Cure
― Love is the Answer God is the Cure
“At the moment, sitting in his idling car under a rustling sycamore on a cool evening in front of Hope’s apartment seems not only perfectly normal, but a good idea. He hasn’t sat outside of a girl’s house since he was what? Fifteen? Except that he wasn’t married then.”
― Extreme
― Extreme
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