Sam

“Loneliness is the diary keeper’s lover. It is not narcissism that takes them to their desk every day. And who “keeps” whom, after all? The diary is demanding; it imposes its routine; it must be chored the way one must milk a cow; and it alters your attitude toward life, which is lived, finally, only in order that it may makes it way to the private page.

[From "Fifty Literary Pillars", p.35]”
― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

“No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes”
― Virginia Woolf

“Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“...the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show people as I see them.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere