Ethnic cleansing Quote by Selma Dabbagh

“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

“And then we were all lifted and hurled away from there, down back the way we had come, around a bend, into a darkway…

— Harlan Ellison

“He washed up on a desert island, where he incurred the most remarkable series of mishaps that somehow kept turning out for the best.…

— David Bromige

“He readied himself to let go, to plunge in, to begin the swim out into the farther cold, out into the terrible, terrible freedom…

— Patrick Ness

“Outside, the wind and rain scribbled foreign letters across the sand, firm and final like a verdict: have spoken. I have said all there…

— Anonymous

“He was the same as everyone else: he carried his past inside him. There was no escape from it. No matter how hard you…

— Louise Douglas

“He lay on the bed and he felt he might never rise from it. He lay in an enormous torpor. The world was too…

— William Gay

“He was learning to live on several planes at once. The art of it was to forget everything except the ground you stood on…

— John le Carré

“He got to spend another day on the earth; messed up, cruel, and dangerous as it was, it was the only place he wanted…

— Alex London

“He was so perplexed that, in spite of everything surrounding him, he stood several times stock still in the middle of the pavement, completely…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“When he rose and turned to go back the tarp was lit from within where the boy had wakened. Sited there in the darkness…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he…

— Gillian Flynn