Daniel Wright

“The lie was one they - children, doctors, nurses - all encouraged. The lie was that postponing death was life. That wicked lie had now imprisoned Francie in a solitude more absolute and perfect and terrifying than any prison cell.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

“These are days of obligatory uniformity, in football and everything else. Never has the world been so unequal in the opportunities it offers and so equalizing in the habits it imposes: in this end of century world, whoever does not die of hunger dies of boredom.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow

“Brain, character, soul - only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct each is.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

“Easy, shallow men. Yet the thought of anyone more substantial made her nervous, for she was trapped between competing desires, a desire for a more meaningful connection and the desire to never change. She wished for eternal youth and endless merriment.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic