Witnesses to the World Quotes

“I prefer just to live in my memories, to look at the map and consider what it was like when I followed the river as far as I could on a cool day early in autumn last year, that this long purple line represents happiness - no, it’s more than that. The purple line is fleeting happiness made permanent. Yes, I can live with thinking about it that way.”
― Christopher Walker, Witnesses to the World: Volume 1: 20 Stories set in Europe

“since we all of us wonder about the exact same thing, nothing can ever change, because the thing itself is fixed in our memories like an image. The quality of the colours might change, but the image is a constant throughout our people’s history, and will continue to be. That, in essence, is the great span.”
― Christopher Walker, Witnesses to the World: Volume 1: 20 Stories set in Europe