T.J.

“To write competently is to do a few magic tricks for friends and family; to write well is to run away and join the circus.”
― Toby Litt, The Guardian

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. ‘This is my last experiment,’ wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. ‘If there is any eternal torment worse than mine I’ll have to be shown.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“out there houses are rare as rocking horse turds.”
― Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut