Ariel

“I'll not describe it to you. We children of the mid-century don't need a diagram to imagine such places. A hundred and fifty years ago, people became sentimental about lakes and forests. Today we have the lyricism of the prison cell. Hence, I'll leave it to you. You need add but a few details: the heat, the vertical sun, the flies, the sand, the lack of water.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Inside the peach, there is a stone.”
― Margaret Atwood

“…just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.”
― Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows

“I am a former child, and I haven't forgotten a thing.”
― Ursula Nordstrom, Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom