Hlomla Makwetu

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“an inch more of rain and this country would be paradise - Eden on earth.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea