Amy

“Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“We all move uneasily within our restraints.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was “a way out of loneliness.”
(NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.) ”
― Jonathan Franzen

“I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end. ”
― Joyce Carol Oates, I Am No One You Know