Monalissa

“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.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“What do you read, my lord? HAMLET 205 Words, words, words.”
― William Shakespeare, 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.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“This book is unfinished. The Filipino people shall finish it for me.”
― Primitivo Mijares, The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos