Jay

“Apparently, it won’t do just to tell the reader what a particular character is like. The author needs to show their habits or their words and let the reader form an image on their own.”
― Keigo Higashino, Malice

“I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made the playoffs, or you saw a movie, or a billboard glowing dusky orange and advertising Aruba, or a girl who bore more than a passing resemblance to a woman you’d dated in high school—a woman you’d loved and lost—danced above you with shimmering eyes, and you said, fuck it, let’s dream just one more time.”
― Dennis Lehane, Mystic River

“Why do I do this?”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

“Ideally, Martha, you want to figure out the reason why you keep burning your own house down.”
― Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss