“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
― Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
― Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
“Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.”
― Still Life with Woodpecker
― Still Life with Woodpecker
“There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.”
― Cash
― Cash
“I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
― A Writer's Diary
― A Writer's Diary
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