Erik

“In their silent reticence was evident the reality that somewhere along the journey they'd passed the point where human goodness gave way to the calculus of survival.”
― Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

“And perhaps I have tried too hard to be someone else without realizing at first what I presently am.”
― Alistair MacLeod, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood

“They made you believe you had power; they hammered at your brain over the barracks loudspeakers; they commanded you in the name of your country; and they gave you your share of guilt so you could not wash your hands of it but would be forever bound by ties of blood.”
― Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows

“In a fit of nostalgia, and because he was the only man Samad knew on this little island, Samad had sought Archie out, moved into the same London borough. And slowly but surely a kind of friendship was being rekindled between the two men.

'You play like a faggot,' said Samad”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth