Jerry Jenkins

“He came only once, in white knickerbockers, and had a fight with a bum named Etty in the garden.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I know that feeling intimately. It's where I live. I eat, sleep, and dream of the void, and whenever it calls my name, I'm there in the front row ready to answer.”
― Neal Shusterman, Dry

“A man crushed by reality puts on a show of endurance. If that's beyond your comprehension, dear reader, then you and I will never understand each other. Life's a farce, so we might as well make it a good one. But real life is a realm that I may never reach. The best that I can hope for is to loiter in the memory of these four days, so steeped with empathy. Four days that count more than five or ten years of my life. Four days that count more than a lifetime.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

“Even now, I barely have the strength to reread what I've written.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery