Emmanuel Esplain

“Mr. Clyde Mead”
― Carolyn Keene, The Crooked Banister

“In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

“For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.”
― Bill Watterson