Madeleine

“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”
― William S. Burroughs

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.”
― Stephen Sondheim