The Tears of Dark Water Quotes

“The Tears of Dark Water is not really “about” Somali piracy. It is about the multi-dimensional fallout of Somalia’s disintegration over the past two decades. Piracy offered me a narrative framework to explore not only how a hijacking and hostage crisis could end in tragedy but also how the breakdown of social order on land could inspire young Somalis to take to the ocean.”
― Corban Addison, The Tears of Dark Water: Epic tale of conflict, redemption and common humanity

“Being is the sea; speech is the shore; the shells are letters; the pearls knowledge of the heart.”
― Corban Addison, The Tears of Dark Water

“Love was a game that women played and men lost. And sex without love was complicated and disappointing”
― Corban Addison, The Tears of Dark Water

“The truth is that everyone is to blame, and no one. When I've tried to force one person to shoulder the weight of guilt....it has only exacerbated the wrong. The knot cannot be undone. The strands are bound together for all of time. There is only one way to overcome it and that is to cast it over the side and let the sea of forgiveness wash it away.”
― Corban Addison, The Tears of Dark Water

“The wound in her heart was real.”
― Corban Addison, The Tears of Dark Water