Stuthi

“She was full of yearning. To leave, to be someone else, somewhere else, to start moving and never stop. And yet the more the innermost part of her screamed to move, the more she recognised that she was frozen to one place, one life.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“Feeling became fashionable and emotion became a theatre in which people were players who no longer knew who they were off the stage.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“Reason was the only thing that might save them, and there was no reason.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“No one makes love like they make a wall or a house. They catch it like a cold. It makes them miserable and then it passes, and pretending otherwise is the road to hell.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North