Penda

“I've always though Marx's view on religion was the one thing he got right. Faith is a crutch.'

'If you step on a land mine,' Akhmed said, "the crutch becomes the leg.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“So, I revealed secrets I did not want known in order to feel closer to someone. Oh, the loss I felt when I found the secrets I had held dear, that were so difficult to say out loud, that I had kept to myself, were being spread around the next day as if they were nothing! I think that was the moment I realized that pouring your heart out to someone might not bring you closer but in fact make you poorer instead.”
― Kyung-sook Shin, I'll Be Right There

“Each time I thought about him, the idea that I would never be able to reach him spread through my mind like a shadow.”
― Kyung-sook Shin, I'll Be Right There

“The stars are dead, but their memories fill the sky”
― Gregory Galloway