Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.
'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.