“Quiet! Quiet! We shall neither go to nor run from the white city,” said the first brother. “And I assure you that as soon as the moon disappears behind those clouds, so too will the City of Salt. For these twin cities of heaven and hell are like ourselves, born of the same egg. And I ask you this: is the salty taste of our tears not the same from joy as it is from sorrow?”
Richard Selesnick & Nicholas Kahn from ‘City of Salt’