Jamie Ward

“I know I had it - I could feel it, the way you feel blood in your veins - and now I reach for it and reach for it, and it isn't there.”
― Richard Yates, The Easter Parade

“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 was twenty then. What the hell, I used to say, take your time, Bandini. You got ten years to write a book, so take it easy, get out and learn about life, walk the streets. That’s your trouble: your ignorance of life.”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust