Adam

“Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?”
― Graham Swift, Waterland

“And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, / No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality . . . . it is idle to try to alarm me”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.”
― Graham Swift, Waterland