Chloe

“If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.”
― Raymond Carver, Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose

“Love is too weak a word for what I feel - I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F's, yes.”
― Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay

“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
― Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris: The Shooting Script

“What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
― A.P. Chekhov