AndPeggy

“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than its own, set in a grassless cinderstrewnpacked compound surrounded by smoking factory purlieus and enclosed by ten food steel-and-wire fence like a penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike childtrebling, orphans in identical and uniform blue denim in and out of remembering but in knowing constant in the bleak walls, the bleak windows where in rain soot from the yearly adjacenting chimneys streaked like black tears.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

“What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families”
― Tennessee Williams

“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”
― Ray Bradbury