Jaime Pel

“One should only be afraid of those things Which have the power of doing others harm; For the rest, fear not; because they are not fearful.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“You see, writers traveling to Southeast Asia visit indigenous communities. No writing quest will be complete without some cross-cultural comparisons. This exercise is a decisive moment in every author’s life. Equate it to a photographer meeting his first old man with a wrinkled face or the old lady with heavy earrings dangling from her earlobes.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Helen and Buster got down and started praying with Mom, but I just stood there looking at them. The way I saw it, I was the one who'd saved us all, not Mom and not some guardian angel.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses