You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.