Christopher

“Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.”
― Ian McGuire, The North Water

“He finds the lying comes easy enough, of course. Words are just noises in a certain order, and he can use them any way he wishes. Pigs grunt, ducks quack, and men tell lies: that is how it generally goes.”
― Ian McGuire, The North Water

“He found that man needs affection, that life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it turns.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?”
― Ian McGuire, The North Water