Jo Hamya > Quotes

“Now, even to me, it seemed ridiculous to concede that I had accumulated substantial debt and a few degrees so that I might contractually labor for the sake of having two free days a week in which to cook a meal in a kitchen I could not actually afford to own, for a small crowd of people my age who spent their lives do- ing the same”
― Jo Hamya, Three Rooms

“Before calling my mother, I was an unhappy, failing adult. After calling my mother, I was an unhappy, failing child.”
― Jo Hamya, Three Rooms

“The privilege of a place can depend on the absence of the wrong body as much as the presence of the right one.”
― Jo Hamya, Three Rooms

“By that time, he’d had seven novels to his name. He had written them because he had, with a measure of safety induced by the barrier of fiction, wanted to show the world some of his selves.”
― Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

“No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like.”
― Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

“The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them.”
― Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

“There was summer, a beach; a country they were still getting used to in the early stages of their holiday.

She threw that away, too.”
― Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

“In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concern him.”
― Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

“We as people are so stupidly dull. There is never anything to stop our thoughts from destroying the beauty of something we fear may overwhelm us.”
― Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite