"The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my own "complicated grief" in on the process. You can imagine how tempting it is to try to fight the part of you that loops and loops, caught up in tangled sorrow from which it seems there's no escape."

-- Laura Mullen

#Grief Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.â€ (p.531)”
“I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want)”

Source : Sapardi Djoko Damono, “I Want”
“I think all of us have our inner 13-year-old a lot closer to the surface than we're willing to admit even to ourselves.”

Source : "Jennifer Garner for ‘13 Going On 30’". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. April 14, 2004.
“I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.”
“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”

Source : "The Letters of Pliny the Younger". Book by Pliny the Elder (Book II, Letter 15), 1751.
“Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.”

Source : J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway
“The maids in my village talked of falling in love with a man at first sight. That has always seemed naught but foolishness to me. Until I enter Sister Serafina's workshop. It is unlike anything I have ever seen, full of strange sights and smells, and I tumble headlong into love.”
“If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans”

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