Jeric Arguelles

“I was someone good, young, going away.
I felt sad and clean
and sad perhaps because
of having learnt something
and not yet knowing what.”
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Selected Poems

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

“For surely a great part of what is called a writer's "vision" comes from how he listens.”
― Lawrence Rust Hills, Writing In General And The Short Story In Particular

“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