Renee

“People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Kindness that is nothing special is the rarest and most honest.”
― Emily Ruskovich, Idaho

“Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being. If you operate, which most of us do, from the premise that there are things about the contemporary U.S. that make it distinctively hard to be a real human being, then maybe half of fiction's job is to dramatize what makes it tough. The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still are human beings, now. Or can be…I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't good art.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Having a drink in bed while listening to music and reading a book. As precious to me as a beautiful sunset or good clean air.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World