Annie

“Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the next thing happened.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“There was some element of loneliness involved- so easy to be loved- so hard to love.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History