Gerri

“Despair keeps no clocks. If you ask him the time, he will always say it is too late to complete your journey. He will tell you his is the last stop there is, anywhere. Do not trust the wily old shopkeeper. Instead, rest a while and thank him for his stories of lost glory. Then it is best to be on your way.”
― Alvin Pang, What Gives Us Our Names

“That was travel, she supposed. A dance across surfaces to see the face of everything and learn the meaning of very little.”
― Thomas Keneally

“In The Divine Comedy, Dante’s depiction of the Inferno is more intense and dramatic than his narrative on Paradise. Dante cannot help but imagine himself torturing the dwellers of hell. Here are the literary grounds for my suspicion that what we expect from God is not so much that he accept us into his heaven but that he send our enemies to hell.”
― Ahmet Altan, I Will Never See the World Again

“The world has become a playground of idiots and zealots, where the ever-shrinking centre of reasonable men must work harder and harder to keep the lights on and the bombs from going off.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Necromancer's House