Victoria Y’s Reviews > Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman > Status Update

“Failure number two. Only one left. But he was no longer afraid. Numbers aren’t the important thing. The countdown has no meaning. Now he knew: What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. And it always has to be the first time and the last.”

“How drunk would you have to be to fall asleep on the rails of a tramline? I wondered. Was the amount a person drunk the main issue? Or did it have more to do with why he was getting drunk in the first place?”

“Whatever the “noble causes” involved, people die in the war from the anger and hatred on both sides. But Nature doesn’t have “sides”.”

“Oh, the fear is there, alright. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do as such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave”.

“What I saw wasn’t a ghost. It was simply - myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, this thought always springs to my mind: that the most frightening thing in the world is our own self.” The Mirror