Andi

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“The closer they get to Broughton, the more the sand dunes bunch together on the collar of the road. He'd wander out here as a lad, carefree, and tumble down the slopes for hours with kids from other towns he'd never see again. Back then, he wouldn't give much thought to smashed-up bottles that were dumped there, or the damage he could do an ankle treading in a burrow. He's forgotten that simplicity, that joy. It's true what Mr Acheson is saying about the world and all its noise, but mostfolk seem to carry on undaunted, just like children gaily sliding down a sand dune. When did he stop sliding for fear of broken glass and bloody knees?”
― Benjamin Wood, Seascraper

“He didn't know there was another edge to Edgar's temperament: a blunter side that's not so organised or easy-going. There's no doubt that he prefers the other version who arrives with steaks and writes him cheques, but he'll forgive a bloke his flaws if there's no malice in them.”
― Benjamin Wood, Seascraper

“I’m simply asking you, can you actually not imagine what they went through in those three hours, what it feels like to spend three hours watching yourself die. And I’m not asking you for my sake, she felt obliged to add, but for yours, because if you can’t get your head around that, you need to be asking yourself some questions: it doesn’t take much imagination to be a moral person.”
― Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat