Tracey Baral

“I had never thought words erotic. Sometimes I really do like to talk more than fuck. Sentences. Buckets of this buckets of that and then buckets of this again. The trouble with words is that you can really talk yourself into a corner. Whereas you can’t fuck yourself into a corner.”
“That’s a man talking,” muttered Hana.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”
― Tennessee Williams

“Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I like watches from that era. Back then a watch was power. Not many people could afford one. The owner of a watch was a man who controlled time...chains and fobs were invented so that even when a man carried a watch in his pocket, you could still see he owned one”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Cold Moon