Mar 10, 2020
“Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.”
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño p. 118
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“Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.”
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño p. 118
'I'm Anton Sergeevich Gorodetsky. A Night Watch agent. Yesterday I killed a vampire who was attacking you.' 'Just one?' I replied
Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch (84)
Ohmygawd!! Is she nervous? Or plain stoopid?
Palestine, Joe Sacco, Page 17
After nineteen years we really had the very strong feeling that we were going back to our lands, houses, streets,schools-to our lives. That we would get our freedom back to the homeland. Sorry to say, that was not the case. It was an illusion.
The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan, (Page 136)
“Suddenly half of the family was gone, half of the neighborhood empty.”
Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree, (Page 79)
The young woman sat alone at the kitchen table. Sunlight streamed in through the south-facing windows of the stone house. The morning was clear, Dalia Eshkenazi remembered, and the quiet would have been broken only by her sips from a steaming mug of tea or the crunch of her teeth on black bread thick with Bulgarian cheese.
Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree, ( Pages 2 & 3)
“The people’s misery grew. To each his own lot. Selfishness becomes our way of life. We wallow in cowardice and resignation.”
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Pg. 91
“As you’re not going to need it for the fare, why don’t you give it to me so I can buy those boots I was telling you about?”
Petros Markaris, Deadline in Athens. (19)