Leo Jiang

“From every boy masquerading as a man that you let into your body, your heart. You learned you didn’t have whatever magic turns a beast into a prince.”
― Caroline Kepnes

“Don't be too didactic. Your writing shouldn't teach someone, your story should.”
― The Economist

“An awareness of history—not merely the facts of it, but a sense of its continuity”
― Mairead Small Staid

“Imagine that the lines an actress reads are a river that runs calmly along the surface of the earth. Then imagine that the actress are the earth, and that under the earth is another river, a wilder one whose current leaps in the opposite direction, whose roar is muted. Every time the actress speaks her lines, she must offer a glimpse of the river that runs beneath: the mysterious churn of her consciousness, the lawlessness of a person's doubts or desires.”
― Elena Ferrante