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“No matter what happens in public—no matter what—don’t doubt that I love you and care about your welfare . . . as much as I am able.”
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“A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.”
Source : J.M. Coetzee (2009). “Summertime”, p.61, Random House
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“I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.”
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“One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.”
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“The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.”
Source : David Millar (2012). “Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
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“I had my own dump truck of bad karma waiting for me somewhere ahwad. I had certainly earned it, but I raced to avoid it if I could; there was no way I wanted to fell that.”
Source : Kevin Hearne (2013). “Hunted: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Six”, p.96, Del Rey
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“I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living”
Source : Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.520, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical perfections, can never have to us precisely the same meaning it had for them. We cannot tear down the barricade that separates the present world from things and deeds past.”