David

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“Hunger is the best seasoning.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.”
― Ken Follett, Hornet Flight