Haley

“Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.”
― Chinua Achebe, The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God

“Quiet Girl

I would liken you
To a night without stars
Were it not for your eyes.
I would liken you
To a sleep without dreams
Were it not for your songs.”
― Langston Hughes, The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

“As long as they killed people with conventional rather than nuclear weapons, they were praised as humanitarian statesmen. As long as they did not use nuclear weapons, it appeared, nobody was going to give the right name to all the killing that had been going on since the end of the Second World War, which was surely “World War Three.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

“Fear and guilt are sisters;”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House