Gill

“Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close by the train is waiting." by Primo Levi in Drowned”
― Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved

“I often wonder if the bill is yet to be presented during our lifetime. If not, I must present it to myself.”
― Christa Wolf, Ein Tag im Jahr im neuen Jahrhundert: 2001-2011

“A lot of things seem one way but are another. And how a thing seems is often just the game we play to save ourselves from great, panicking pain.”
― Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World