Afternoon Hours of a Hermit Quotes

“Perhaps part of the problem was I had surrounded myself with the fiction writers instead of the poets. I had chosen the wrong world to immerse myself in; the poets were nightclub docents of mourning and melancholia and the fiction writers were real estate agents.”
― Patrick Cottrell, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit

“I don't know how we can be sure what we are to anyone, I remembered thinking, even if we ask them directly, there's no way to know.”
― Patrick Cottrell, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit