R. E. Shaper

“There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves