"Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'."

-- Marshall B. Rosenberg

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“My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.”
“So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. "I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this." "What is 'this'?" "Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.”
“I... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.”

Source : Ruskin Bond (1988). “The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories”, p.80, Penguin Books India
“Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.”
“What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?”

Source : Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel”, Penguin
“Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.”
“I'm rubber and you're glue," I told Satan, " and everything that bounces of me sticks to you.”
“Everything I do, I do for love.”

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