Heather

“A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two women. What do they look like? Wearing black. Where are they? In a park. . . . And then, what are they doing? Try it, it's so easy, why don't you want to play? You know, that's how I talk to myself when I'm alone, I tell myself all kinds of stories. And not only silly stories: actually, I live this way altogether.”
― Andre Breton, Nadja

“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“A language is everything you do.”
― Margaret Atwood

“[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence