💬 Quotes

"You're the only person who's ever made me want to be better, and I don't know how to be that person without you."

"Falling for you was like falling off a cliff. I knew it was going to hurt, but I didn't care because I wanted to feel what it was like to fly."

"Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't mean you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more."

"I’m not a good man, Abby. I never claimed to be. But I’m a man who’s crazy about you, and I’ll do whatever it takes to keep you."

"It was the beautiful disaster that was my life, and I wouldn't have it any other way."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

"I see it's a cruel world, and I'm glad I'm going where there's no more slavery."

"If it were your Harry, mother, or your Willie, that were to be torn from you by a brutal trader, tomorrow morning... how fast could you walk then?"

"The Lord has given me a work to do, and I must do it. I have nothing to fear but God."

"The Congo is not a country. It is a vacuum, a place where the rules of the world seem to dissolve and the only thing that matters is the immediate, brutal present."

"History in the Congo is not a straight line; it is a circle, a repeating trap of exploitation and conflict that refuses to let the people move forward."

"To travel the Congo is to peel back the layers of a nightmare and find, beneath each one, a haunting, desperate beauty that refuses to die."

"We were ghosts following in the footsteps of a giant, moving through a landscape that had swallowed Stanley whole and was waiting to do the same to us."

"The silence of the jungle is not the absence of sound, but the presence of a thousand hidden eyes watching you, judging whether you are a threat or merely fodder."

"In the heart of Africa, hope is not a grand, sweeping ambition; it is a quiet, daily act of persistence, a refusal to be broken by the world you were born into."

"A peach, a peach, a giant peach! Let's take a bite of the giant peach!"

"We are now about to visit the most marvelous places and see the most wonderful things!"

"You never know what is going to happen next in this world, do you?"