Shibosan

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Theophilus Crowe wrote bad free-verse poetry and played a jimbai drum while sitting on a rock by the ocean. He could play sixteen chords on the guitar and knew five Bob Dylan songs all the way through, allowing for a dampening buzz any time he had to play a bar chord. He had tried his hand at painting, sculpture, and pottery and had even played a minor part in the Pine Cove Little Theater’s revival of Arsenic and Old Lace. In all of these endeavors, he had experienced a meteoric rise to mediocrity and quit before total embarrassment and self-loathing set in. Theo was cursed with an artist’s soul but no talent. He possessed the angst and the inspiration, but not the means to create.”
― Christopher Moore, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove