Paula Cabezas

“I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the sky. It turned out to be nothing but sadness, war, heartbreak. You never saw it, but there’s a garden inside me.”
― Shane Jones, Light Boxes

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

“I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.”
― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Mandarins: Stories

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts