"Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years."

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Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.75, Atlantic Books Ltd

Pascal Mercier

#Years Quotes #Silence Quotes

“For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is the most welcoming community, is a child lost forever for peace and development. I contest this view. For the sake of these children, it is essential to prove that another life is possible.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Boy Soldier author takes on UN role". www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2007.
“We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated.”
“It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.”

Source : "Giles Duley Interview by Lisa Rueff". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“What made it special made it dangerous, so I bury it... and forget.”
“Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.”
“Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.”
“Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.”
“I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.”

Source : "Arthur Smith: What I see in the mirror" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2009.

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