“We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Stories,” p. 60
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.”
— Hisham Matar, book In the Country of Men
Source: In the Country of Men
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