Wail Mobarak

“Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.”
― J. Maarten Troost, Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

“A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.”
― Stefanos Livos