Jamie Ward

“I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face.”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust

“For a year she found an exquisite pain - almost pleasure - in facing the world as if she didn't care. Look at me, she would say to herself in the middle of a trying day. Look at me: I'm surviving; I'm coping; I'm in control of all this.”
― Richard Yates, The Easter Parade

“I felt as if I had more to learn than I had time on earth.”
― Anita Amirrezvani, The Blood of Flowers

“Jesus, these Protestants! In my church we didn't sing cheap hymns. With us it was Handel and Palestrina.”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust