Erin

“An 'eye.' It did not mean the ability to spot the difference between a topaz and a brown diamond, a real Tiffany and a fake, or even some 'soul' in an object that all could attest to; it was to spot the echo in oneself. I scanned the room and could not sense it, but then again, this was a room filled by someone else's impulses and caprices. To find an echo in oneself, one had to know oneself. That seemed an impossibility. Would I ever become a person who bought a bridal shawl and draped it above a work by some well-known artist? Would I ever become a person who asked for a stone to be chipped off a wall?”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Villa Coco

“People have no understanding of how love works,” Eddie said. “They don’t take gratitude into account. They don’t think about relief.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“Lucas had never regained his footing after the demise of Positivity, a franchise dead in the water by 1985. It would have died long before then had it not been for my mother’s publicist tenacity. Once the series was scrubbed, Lucas spent the rest of his life pacing around the yard, or pacing up and down the halls when the weather was bad. He never could stop grumbling, to my mother or my brothers, about the unfairness of it all. To be unable to find something else to write about was one thing, surely that happened all the time, but his inability to take his own advice was a real mark against him.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“everyone remembers things which never happened, and it’s common knowledge that people often forget things which did. either we are all fantasists and liars or the past has nothing definite in it. but i have heard people say we are shaped by our childhood, but which one?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry