Emma Audsley

“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards," Dick wrote of these stories. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford

“that (the ideas of) height and lowness arise from the contrast of the one with the other;”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.”
― Stephen King, The Stand