Rika König

“Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware the rain.
Beware the snow.
Beware the man
You think you know.
-Songs of Sapphique”
― Catherine Fisher, Incarceron

“There had never been a death so foretold.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada

“War is a great leveller: it shows the man as he really is, not as he would like to be, nor as he would like you to think he is. It shows him stripped, with his greatness mixed with his pathetic fears and weaknesses, and though there were disappointments they were more than cancelled out by pleasant surprises of the little men who, suddenly, became larger than life. I have a creed, borne out by war, which is – never to give a man a second chance. It may sound hard, but I have found that the man who lets you down once, will, infallibly, do so again.”
― Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey

“Art, true art, exists only to transform, my mother had said. And it is only truly art when it does transform. The maker. The viewer. Everyone.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband