Nicole Socci

“There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.”

[narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

“O my body, make of me always a man who questions!”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“When love is not madness it is not love.”
― Pedro Calderon de la Barca