Nicholas Sim

“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing...
And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes.
And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished.

Behind me, I heard the same man asking:
"For God's sake, where is God?"
And from within me, I heard a voice answer:
"Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows..."

That night, the soup tasted of corpses.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement