Cecilia Lim

“You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters.”
― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“She smiled at him like they were about to rob a bank together.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers

“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained