Angela Emery

“And he needed to be able to look at himself in the mirror without having to turn away - he couldn't bear to be less than he hoped he was. It was a virtue and a fault that he would carry with him all his life.”
― Simon Tolkien, No Man's Land

“They only want to weep
As after the huge wars
Senseless huge wars
Huge senseless weeping.”
― Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes: Poems Selected by Simon Armitage

“Now and then I have expressed the opinion that every nation, and every person, would do better, instead of rocking himself to sleep with political catchwords about war-guilt, to ask himself how far his own faults and negligencies and evil tendencies are guilty of the war and all the other wrongs of the world, and that there lies the only possible means of avoiding the next war.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot