Buenos aires Quote by D. Lawrence-Young

“Don’t work for the survivors or architects of massacres. You’ll live just long enough to regret it.”

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

“We entertain the immortals in order that they might be persuaded to help us recover the strength and unity stolen from us by death.”

— Tom Robbins

“This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies had been…

— Rupert Thomson

“Perhaps the best way to sum all this up is to say that the people I knew felt, mainly, a peculiar kind of relief…

— James Baldwin

“The four of them stared at me. Half an hour ago we were strangers and I was beating the crap out of them; now…

— Jonathan Maberry

“You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can’t understand what that means until you’ve read…

— Kevin Hearne

“Modern architecture has the potential to send you to an early grave.”

— Steven Magee

“( In war) you determine who will die anyway, and you move to those you can save. You want to stand over the dead…

— Tatjana Soli

“They died comfortably in their little bed of understanding, to become useful citizens of the world. I pitied them, and in short order I…

— Henry Miller

“I think a look at suffering humanity would lead to the realization that trauma is perhaps the greatest mission field of the twenty-first century.”

— Diane Mandt Langberg

“I acted not, as I most often did, as death’s enemy, but as its ambassador. I had to help those families understand that the…

— Paul Kalanithi

“...that imperial guard which poets and humanists mount in relay around any great memory.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar