Raphael Hanna

“A new conviction was crystallizing out of the murky fluid of my own thoughts. There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past. There was no such thing as a clean start, because no one truly forgave and no one wholly forgot. In the end, the folk memory betrayed us all. The wrongs of the fathers were revenged on the children.”
― Morris L. West, The Salamander

“I love you and I miss you; but I dare not let myself depend on the loving, and I must get used to the missing.”
― Morris L. West, The Salamander

“I race into the bomb shelter of the third person singular, I send another into the minefields of the past. I was that same person, who was once in first person, and now I'm afraid to ask whether he's still alive. Are they still alive, all those we've been?”
― Georgi Gospodinov, The Physics of Sorrow

“he knew, and knew profoundly. He enjoyed. He savoured. He had made his own sense of the mad mathematics of creation.”
― Morris L. West, The Salamander