Angila Helscher

“His soul had plummeted into a bottomless, black pit. Regret and sorrow crept into his heart, as he clawed his way back to the light.”
― Marilyn Dalla Valle

“Be too anchored in the Now, to still be carrying the past”
― Daniel Mangena

“The director Stanley Kubrick, no doubt attracted by the unusual visuals of urban combat, set Full Metal Jacket in Hue, although in his film the battle is just a backdrop.”
― Mark Bowden, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

“it only occurred to me much later that the summer I was fourteen I had saved a life--not the life of a stranger as I had imagined--but the life I had taken for granted and which, in the years to come, I would take for granted again.”
― Ursula Hegi, Floating in My Mother's Palm