Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.
I never change, I simply become more myself.
Novels usually evolve out of 'character. ' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.
I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it.
I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.
The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively.