Jeric Arguelles

“But at least while I lived, I lived big!”
― Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint

“Where such men love they have no desire, and where they desire, they cannot love.”
― Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint

“Gentleness is a posthumous honor.”
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Selected Poems

“Hey there, Kizuki, I thought. Unlike you, I've chosen to live- and to live the best i know how. Sure it was hard for you. What the hell, it's hard for me. Really hard. And all because you killed yourself and left Naoko behind. But that's something I will never do. I will never, ever, turn my back on her. First of all, because I love her, and because I'm stronger than she is. And i'm just going to keep on getting stronger. I'm going to mature. I'm going to be an adult. Because that's what I have to do. I always used to think I'd like to stay 17 or 18 if I could. But not anymore. I'm not a teenager anymore. I've got a sense of responsibility now. I'm not the same person I was when we used to hang out together. I'm 20 now. And I have to pay the price to go on living.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood