"Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as dreadful places can be, they're still just places; and no matter how awful ghosts might seem, they're just dead people. I always thought that the most terrifying things anyone could ever think up were the things living people came up with. "
— Banana Yoshimoto (Hardboiled and Hard Luck)

"You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go."
— Craig Thompson (Carnet De Voyage)

"But sometimes when you wore a mask for a very long time, it became your face."
— Amulya Malladi (Serving Crazy with Curry)

"It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about."
— Orson Scott Card (Enchantment)