Renz Ogena

“The English are fond of their idea that our race has an instinct for suicide, as if further explanations are unnecessary; for that was all they reported, that she was Japanese and that she had hung herself in her room.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

“Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.”
― Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

“I am not in the least an intellectual, which is not to say that when I hear the word "intellectual" I reach for my gun, but only to say that I do not think in abstracts.”
― Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

“It's disheartening, me and Magda together. We don't look like a couple. When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage. When I smile folks check their wallets.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her