"Sacred Hunger" Quotes
"Sacred Hunger" is a historical novel exploring the moral complexities and economic motivations behind the 18th-century transatlantic slave trade, focusing on a doomed ship and its diverse crew.
historical fiction | 336 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
The sea was a vast emptiness that could swallow a man whole.
Greed is the sacred hunger of man.
In the end, every man is alone in his suffering.
It is not the chains that hold a man captive, but his own mind.
What is the measure of a man if not his ability to endure against the odds?
Each of us carries a darkness, a shadow that follows us wherever we go.
The past is a weight that presses down on the present.
Without forgiveness, there is no future, only the endless echo of the past.
Love, like the sea, can be both gentle and destructive.
Power lies not in possession but in the perception of possession.
