Jeff

“That’s how he saw the contradictory and even unbearable situation of being enclosed in a language that didn’t think like he did but like his father: that’s where those desires to rebel against his own home came from.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Informers

“The gradual and imperceptible subsidence of the waters, that’s the alluvium. Thus am I gradually left alone, thus have I been left alone.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Informers

“I had just vividly demonstrated to myself what a tremendous force faith is, and how easy it is to awaken. You just need to know a little bit more than the ones who are supposed to believe. Then it’s easy to work miracles.”
― Vladimir Bartol, Alamut

“Life was like one big marching army. Death ran alongside and picked off a soldier here and there, but that didn’t affect the army. Its march continued, and its size didn’t seem to diminish. On the contrary, it grew on into eternity, so that no one was alone in death. Someone else would always follow. That was what counted. Such was the chain of life: unbreakable. But”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned