“Mother’s tenderness toward my younger sisters caused more tears to pool in my eyes. I felt too old to be hugged and caressed by her, yet my body yearned for her touch; at least this once. I couldn't recall the last time she had shared the same warmth with me. The countless months of hardship had created an ocean of distance between us. It would be too awkward to hug her now. I sat across from her with tear-stained cheeks, wondering if she could feel my sadness and if she knew I loved her unconditionally.”
Source: Beautiful Hero: How We Survived the Khmer Rouge
“Kaci żyją między ocalałymi. Albo w ocalałych. W jednym ciele i kat, i ofiara. Widują się codziennie. Na ulicy, na bazarze, w pracy, w lustrze.”
Source: Pianie kogutów, płacz psów
“A story, I had learned, through my own constant knitting and reknitting of remembered words, can lead us back to ourselves, to our lost innocence, and in the shadow it casts over our present world, we begin to understand what we only intuited in our naivété - that while all else may vanish, love is our one eternity. It reflects itself in joy and grief, in my fathers sudden knowledge that he would not live to protect me, and in his determination to leave behind a part of himself - his spirit, his humanity - to illuminate my path, give light to my darkened world. He carved his silhouette in the memory of the sky for me to return to again and again.”
Source: In the Shadow of the Banyan
“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
“It’s a gift to imagine heaven, and a rebirth to actually glimpse it.”
Source: In the Shadow of the Banyan
“When he talks about life under the Khmer Rouge, he uses phrases very unlike him—“true hell,” “more than insane,” “below zero.”
“He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot or starve,kill or be killed,shelter or suffer,procreate or count for nothing-has clarified his thinking,purged him of politics and its constant search for compromise.”
Source: Colonel Roosevelt
“My voice has expanded. It's unfurled in directions I didn't know it could go. And, in some ways, it isn't even what I thought it was.”
Source: Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World
“Jerusalem, thought Morrison, was like a deep pool, where time had settle too thickly.”
Source: Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
“Life is nothing short of a phenomenon. In every sense life is mysterious and unfathomable.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life