Hilton Wooleyhan

“At headquarters I tried to suppress some of the more fantastic rumours. After the bombing of Rangoon and many other places by Japanese Aircraft the local bazaars buzzed with rumours. One was to the effect the Germans had occupied Rangoon. …many villagers were openly discussing their coming flight to distant places of safety. Some hooligans, I had reason to believe, were planning to loot the Indian and Chinese shops and were storing large quantities of knives and spears in some caves in jungle places … One night I stood
at the door of my house which overlooked the surrounding country and watched the outline of flames in various directions. The dome of heaven was splashed with a bloody glare as one burst of flame succeeded another. The night seemed to emphasise the feeling of universal
unease … Captain Gribble”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

“A woman has her needs. What good is a mother to her poor children if she's suffering from low self-esteem and sexual frustration? If you don't get laid soon, you will literally close up. More importantly, you will shrivel. And you will become bitter.”
― Helen Fielding, Mad About the Boy

“I have never met a couple with such integrity, such closeness as those two. They comprised their own little universe.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Old Dreams Die: Stories

“... but it didn’t change the fact that the conscious mind remained the same for a Regen and you just couldn’t go through several lifetimes and retain the innocence of youth; some things you just could not unsee, unfeel or undo.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue