Chris Lawton

“I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. ”
― Tahar Ben Jelloun

“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“She is just a woman who life has made different. This is her strange way of trying to love you.”
― Shyam Selvadurai, The Hungry Ghosts