Naomi

“What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.”
― Graham Swift, Waterland

“Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?”
― Graham Swift, Waterland

“Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.”
― Graham Swift, Waterland

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye