Arno

“You became what you wanted to become. That's what Ezra believe. You could become it if you tried hard enough, could take what you really were and change it, force-feed yourself a new life until it became your old life, too, blurred together until a better self emerged.”
― Michael Koryta, Envy the Night

“Pinapatawad natin ang kalungkutan ng iba kapag hindi sinasadya nating natatabig ang kanilang pag-iisa sa pagmamadali sa pagtawid sa lansangan, o natatagpuan natin silang nakadungaw din sa bangin gaya natin.”
― Edgar Calabia Samar, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog,, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog

“I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page, nowhere in the annals of man, would her name appear: no local habitation, no name. There are girls like that, he thought, and those you love most, the ones where there is no hope because it has eluded you at the very moment you close your hands around it.”
― Philip K. Dick