Valeka

“Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.”
― Junot Díaz, Drown

“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.”
― Robert De Niro

“And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores