Kaayoh

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”
― Émile Zola

“That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“I gave myself up to fruitless speculation, and was always looking for secluded places. I became particularly fond of the ruined greenhouse. I used to climb, I remember, on to the high wall, settle myself on it and sit there, a youth afflicted by such misery, solitude and grief that I would be overcome with self-pity. How I reveled in these melancholy feelings - how I adored them.”
― Ivan Turgenev, First Love