Pok Tress

“—Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there would not be one tree left standing on God’s green Earth.”
― Irvine Welsh, The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins: A Novel

“Please forgive me for thinking faith means certainty.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain

“Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“But I'm willing to take a chance on believing there has to be a way. All I need is someone to believe with me.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale, Vol. 01