Piers

“Powerful nations will have their way with the weak. They will see that their own interests are served. No doubt life would be better if both nations and people were guided by principle rather than by self-interest but … it is not the case. It is foolish to pretend otherwise.”
― J.G. Farrellell , The Singapore Grip

“Maybe we just get given our faces, our fates, our happiness and unhappiness. Some get a lot, some get bugger all. And love the same.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had,’ she said quietly, staring into the embers. ‘They don’t know what it was like, not being in a camp.”
― Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

“Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.”
― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists