Nia Griffiths

“What we consider real is also imagined; every life lived is also an inner life, a life created.”
― Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

“This is perhaps why Dante chooses the poet Virgil to be his guide in the Inferno; in visiting a strange location, it's always best to go with someone who's been there before, and – most important of all on a sightseeing tour of Hell – who might also know how to get you out again.”
― Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

“This body holds the body. This arm holds the spear. And the spear cuts through water.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“I have lived a long time," she said. "And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must become to live in this world.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water