Chris Jones

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness