Jerome Erbach

“Oh, so now I'm getting in trouble for things I didn't tell anyone I didn't know?”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

“devastating consequences of not being seen, of disappearing in a family that never expressed any curiosity about who I really was, but determined my identity based on their own projections, fears, and needs. Curiosity is a form of generosity. Implicit in it is the recognition of another, requiring the puncturing of the vain inglorious shell of self-importance.”
― V (formerly Eve Ensler), The Apology

“The night was when all the failures were remembered longer.”
― Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday

“Take any man you like -- unless he is the one in a hundred thousand with a mind trained to keep things straight, and not always even then -- get him excited, show him something, give him a few hours to think it over, and then ask him about it. It's dollars to doughnuts that you'll have a hard time finding any connection between what he saw and what he says he saw.”
― Dashiell Hammett, Nightmare Town: Stories