Ann

“The novel is a medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.”
― Ford Madox Ford

“For that’s how it is, we cover up our mistakes and failings, we invent stories that put ourselves in a more favorable light. Self-deception is perhaps the most human thing of all.”
― Karl Ove Knausgard, Spring

“That we would do we should do when we would, for this 'would' changes and hath abatements and delays as many as there are tongues, are hands, are accidents. And then this “should” is like a spendthrift sigh That hurts by easing.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“To live is to battle with trolls
in the vaults of heart and brain.
To write: that is to sit
in judgement over one's self.”
― Henrik Ibsen