When You Disappeared

by John Marrs

‘There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.’ —Franz Kafka ‘Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.’ —Paulo Coelho

My eyes were still open when dawn broke. It was a new day but I still ached from the torture of the last.

if you scratch the surface of something perfect, you’ll always find something rotten hidden beneath.

It was better to remain on my island than drown in somebody else’s sea.

You can either learn from your parents’ mistakes, or repeat them and use them as an excuse for your own behaviour.

Fate was an unpredictable bastard.