Rachel

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

“Sometimes I'll pick up the "heart of the jungle" fossil on my bookshelf, or pull out my old field notebooks from my desk drawer, warped by Amazonian rains and the river's steam, the scent of the jungle still on their pages. I do this to remind myself that fiction does not have a monopoly on the unbelievable.”
― Andrés Ruzo, The Boiling River: Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon

“Discordantly—out of the mists—he heard her voice: “Dead faces,” she said whitely, “they’re all the same. . . . They don’t, I mean, tell of the person as they were alive.”
― Jeannette Haien, The All of It

“The danger isn't the river's speed, friend, but its slowness.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant