Ryan Hillis

“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James