Joe

“accustomed to lure him into speaking of himself. But she put them far less spontaneously, far less adroitly, than usual. Her one all-absorbing anxiety in entering that room was not an anxiety to be trifled with.”
― Wilkie Collins, No Name

“[Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“I feel haunted by hidden objects and absent people.”
― Teresa Tumminello Brader, Letting in Air and Light

“The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― Helen Susan Swift, Dark Voyage