Mo Kelly

“Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden