My Last Lament Quotes

“Ah, humans, I thought. We can be such barbarians and then turn around and act like children hoping that among the stars, someone or something might care about our yearnings, our stories. Hope, that's all we've got, isn't it, our most important word?”
― James William Brown, My Last Lament

“There was so much I didn't know then, such as how days get used up and are irreplaceable. Like lives. Sometimes when I watch the village children playing, I think that they're like messengers into a time to come. And I wonder if I should send a message with them. But what one? Love one another? Something like that? But they'll probably learn enough of that sort of thing, learn it and forget it on the way to war.”
― James William Brown, My Last Lament

“A record of a life nearly complete could also be said to be a lament of that life, couldn't it? When I started, I wanted to keep these cassettes to remind me of, what, myself? But in the telling, I've worn myself out, and grown tired of my own voice, tired of this story.”
― James William Brown, My Last Lament