Shany

“I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

“I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.”
― Zadie Smith, NW

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth