“When you are an addict and you get caught, you always seem to be at your lowest point.”
― Such Unfortunates
― Such Unfortunates
“I can never stop thanking you. If I never stop, I never need to say farewell. A river rushes between us. You follow it north, I pursue it south. When I weep because I miss you, my tears will seep through your cavern. Your face is kind as a shawl in winter, or a diamond for a song. My family keeps an inn. You have a chamber in my heart. No rent is due. Farewell. Farewell.”
― Fairest
― Fairest
“You used to sing a song, a haunting melody – always the same melody – but the words would always change. They’d be about anything and everything and nothing at all, just whatever was going on in your heart and your mind at the time. Do you remember that song?”
― The Threat Below
― The Threat Below
“Înseamnă că o iubești. Ți-e teamă pentru că e mai presus de tine, urăști pentru că te temi, iubești pentru că nu poți s-o spui. Pentru că poți iubi numai ceea ce nu ți se supune.”
― We
― We
“It was one of the defining moments of my journey through the Congo. I was travelling through a country with more past than future, a place where the hands of the clock spin not forwards, but backwards.”
― Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country
― Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country
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