"When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point."

-- Lauren DeStefano

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“Her mind is a haunted house.”

Source : Nadeem Aslam (2008). “The Wasted Vigil”, p.5, Faber & Faber
“I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.”
“And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when youâ€™re poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same.”
“Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.”
“I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.”
“I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam.”
“One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.”
“There's nothing bad; there's just making errors on the way back Home.”

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