Kristine

“Afterward, when I started taking pictures, I realized that she had photogenic features and her face could have easily propelled her to stardom, our movies being what they are, nothing but vehicles for lousy actors and actresses with mestizo features.”
― F. Sionil José, Sins

“At this point a new feeling started to well up in me—nothing as profound as a feeling of pride”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Like him, I had gotten to meet the important people in government and out. I had helped them, too, contributed not just to their political agenda but also to their own pockets, and they had all responded—the reparations, the lumber concessions, the licenses and franchises and the approval of Congress—even my income tax deductions. I had a battery of brilliant people, most of them lawyers, who knew all the loop-holes, and some of them even proclaimed themselves as nationalists—I lured them, paid them homage, co-opted them, then used them all.”
― F. Sionil José, Sins