Jo Rooke

“When Death comes very close to you, the rest of the world goes far away and you can feel a great loneliness. At such a time kind words are comforting and strengthening.”
― Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

“he brings the torch down to her bloody feet and takes a look again into her eyes as though asking himself what does madness look like, it looks like this, not someone waving their arms and yelling at the gods but a mother trying to get back home to her children.”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“it's strange for me to think that people can know about me without me having met them. to remember me when I'm not there. to know i exist when im not standing infront of them. it seems even more strange for someone to want me to be with them when I'm not. and the most strange for someone to need me, to depend on me, to love me.”
― Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

“So my first thought when I saw this murderous shape rushing toward me was: So it’s you. Here you are.”
― Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder