David

“I suppose that unrequited love is the hardest kind to shed because it is not really love at all. It is a half-love, and we are forever stomping around trying to get ahold of the other half.”
― Jan Ellison, A Small Indiscretion

“I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die, music disintegrates, and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet and to walk.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
― Terry Southern

“Denial, as any addict in recovery will tell you, is not defined as knowing something and pretending you don’t; it is failing to see it at all.”
― Jan Ellison, A Small Indiscretion