Nicol Estabillo

“The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“A man is the history of his breaths and thoughts, acts, atoms and wounds, love indifference and dislike, also of his race and nation, the soil that fed him and his forbears, the stones and sands of his familiar places, long-silenced battles and struggles of conscience, of the smiles of girls and the slow utterance of old women, of accidents and the gradual action of inexorable law, of all this and something else, too, a single flame which in every way obeys the laws that pertain to Fire itself, and yet is lit and put out from one moment to the next, and can never be relumed in the whole waste of time to come.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

“And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself”
― Dean Koontz