The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story. Sometimes we try to protect them from getting booboos that are too big. Don’t. This is your protagonist, not your kid.

here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out

How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

A fish has no concept of water.

I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.