Aimee

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“I don't know what I think until I write it down.”
― Joan Didion

“My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Faithless : Tales of Transgression