Saskia

“Pleasure is a good thing. But it is the dessert of life, not the meal.”
― Dan Baker, What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.”
― Stephen King

“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie... and a bore, too!”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden