Haley L

“My father understood a good story is a circle that finds the hero back where they started, but with new knowledge. He wanted this to be true. He also knew a good story ended with the hero realizing the world was bigger than he thought, bigger than himself. But the hero can't realize this until he returns home, and my father didn't have a model in his life for the return, only the quest, so he couldn't write the story because he could never get to the ending.”
― Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

“The end was contained in the beginning.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“We saw our authentic selves residing only in the abstract realms of art, creation, and beauty--an interior space of thought and private feeling.”
― Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian