Merna Wail

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree”
― Anchee Min, Empress Orchid

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays