Patrick Bribiesca

“The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too.”
― Émile Zola, Nana

“Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“Maybe that's what life was really about - trying to reclaim the safety and comfort you previously enjoyed inside a womb.”
― Jack Getze, Making Hearts

“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage