Stephen Heaton

“A new wound can take a body. Opening an old one can claim a soul.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

“Wherever something stands, something else will stand beside it.”
― Chinua Achebe, The African Trilogy

“the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past—or, more accurately, pastness—is a position.”
― Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

“I know it may be impossible to believe now”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold