The_Doveston

“This is our climate. We have grown up in this air, this light, and we grasp it on our skin, where it grasps us. We know this earth, this grass, this polished red stone with the soles of our feet. We will never be ourselves anywhere else. Happier, perhaps, healthier, less burdened, more secure. But we will never be closer to who we are than this.”
― Ivan Vladislavić, Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

“All women are whores," she said. "Whether they sell their bodies or their smiles and their charm or their childbearing years and submission to a man. The world makes a woman a whore, but a woman makes her terms.”
― Brent Weeks , Shadow's Edge

“It is perhaps time that somebody was quite simply nothing.”
― Samuel Beckett, Eleuthéria

“The error is one of wanting to live.”
― Samuel Beckett, Eleuthéria