Andi Chorley

“Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion - so he never lacked work or the appearance of importance.”
― I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

“Immigrants, refugees and the displaced might have yearned for the homes they had left behind – but those homes had gone. They longed for somewhere, but that somewhere was a place preserved in a particular moment in history.”
― Agnes Arnold-Forster, Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

“If you came this way,
Taking any route, starting from anywhere,
At any time or at any season,
It would always be the same: you would have to put off
Sense and notion. You are not here to verify,
Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
Or carry report. You are here to kneel
Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more
Than an order of words, the conscious occupation
Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.
And what the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being dead: the communication
Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
― T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding

“To square the circle of the world in your own interpretations is the onset of shortsightedness in an eye that thinks it has perfect vision.”
― Roberto Saviano, ZeroZeroZero