Flungoutofspace (Chris)

“Looking back, it is also the smallest moments that seem to radiate the most pain. The moments when you realize you loved these people, helplessly, that you were given no choice in this matter of loving them, and that they will always be part of you no matter how you try to carve them out of your flesh. That you are tied to them with bonds you could never sever, that they will live on inside you no matter how many effigies of them you hang and burn, no matter how often their reflections appear in the eyes of other men and women, men and women who then unwittingly play the roles of father and mother, with whom you act out the drama again and again.”
― Evelyn Lau, Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far

“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
― Iris Murdoch

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums