Jaclyn

“Constable N stepped away from the car, into the darkness where Darren could not see where his gun was pointing, and fired two rounds into the air. The gunshots cracked the roof of the night sky and echoed back at us. My first thought was that they could be heard all over Toekomsrus; I wondered how many imaginations had in that instant conjured a different story to explain the gunshots; a record of all those stories, I found myself thinking, would probably document every fear this place has of itself and its young men.”
― Jonny Steinberg, Thin Blue: The Unwritten Rules of Policing South African

“No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss.”
― Seneca

“The deepest sorrow, he thought. Where the only way to survive is to excavate everything.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“She embellished the facts because she was aware that life is how we tell it, so why would she jot down trivia?”
― Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea