“I am a writer and comparing things is part of my occupation. Over the years I've learned to compare almost anything to almost anything else. I can compare the pencil I am using to write these words (and these words, and these and these) to my own life, because it is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, and because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“Well, as they said, it's not over until the mockingjay sings.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“Countless writers express countless ideas on so many bits of paper, and at some unknown moment some specific book, even some specific sentence, will be the right one for the right person. We never know when some scrap of literature will have its finest hour.”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are.”
― Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
― Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
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