Joycelyn Hemmert

“I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore”
― Stephenie Meyer

“It was the pleasure that a liar takes in his lie as it enters the world wearing the accent and raiment of the truth, sounding so right and plausible that--if he is any kind of liar at all--he begins, himself, to believe it. It was the pleasure that a maker of golems takes as the force of his words, the rhythm and accuracy of his alphabetical spells, blow life into the cold clay nostrils, and the great stony hand unclenches and reaches for his own.”
― Michael Chabon, Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

“Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days
and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible
and nothing can change that; neither new
girlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, or
God. ”
― Charles Bukowski