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I don’t write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse.


“And when it was known that the police, or the army, or whoever they were, would open fire almost as soon as any of the marches even started, the marches stopped. A few things were blown up, post offices, subway stations. But you couldn’t even be sure who was doing it.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale

“What do you read, my lord? HAMLET 205 Words, words, words.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet

“What I have had for the past six years, what has been constant and steady in my life is the novel I’ve been writing. This has been my home, the place I could always retreat to. The place I could sometimes even feel powerful, I tell them. The place where I am most myself. Maybe some of you, I tell them, have found this place already. Maybe some of you will find it years from now. My hope is that some of you will find it for the first time today by writing.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“This book is unfinished. The Filipino people shall finish it for me.”
― The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos
― The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos
“The world would not have Vincent without Theo.”
― Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
― Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

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