Arkasha

“Human life is bounded by two chasms: fanaticism on one side, absolute skepticism on the other.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“I don't want to be great, Zhu repeated. Her desire was the radiance of the sun, an immensity that filled every part of her without exception. Who else understood what it was to feel something of this magnitude; to want something with the entirety of their self, as she did? "I want to be the greatest.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World

“I’ve written something strange, deeply personal, highly subjective. I am a scientist studying his own soul, a snake swallowing its own tail.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“Dramatic tension is the real curse of the novel, because it transforms everything, even the most beautiful pages, even the most surprising scenes and observations merely into steps leading to the final resolution, in which the meaning of everything that preceded is concentrated.”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality