Félix J. Palma, The Map Of Time Quotes
Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?
Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.
There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood.
Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the scenes of the novel.
Because between doing something and doing nothing, this is all I can do.
And so everything depends on you, Bertie. Bishop or rook. Your life or mine. Do what you believe you have to do.
...but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.