Mark

“When they finally went home, they left behind an unstable, unhappy part of the world, with borders like wounds scored across it.”
― Andrew Marr, A History of Modern Britain

“We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after a meal. There were many hardships to our type of life and we took these small comforts as they came; I found they added up to something decent enough to carry on”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

“Gloria Anzaldúa, who revolutionised the Chicana writing of her generation, called the border ‘una herida abierta – an open wound – where the Third World grates against the First and bleeds. And before a scab forms, it haemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two countries merging to form a third country – a border culture.”
― Ed Vulliamy, Amexica: War Along the Borderline

“could tell that one of the Russian proverbs he loved was on the way. ‘The only place with free cheese is a mousetrap”
― A.D. Miller