Linwood Balduzzi

“In the end he became as fragmentary as the poems of Sappho he never succeeded in restoring, and finally one morning he looked up into the face of the woman who’d been the greatest love of his life and failed to recognize her. And then there was another kind of blow inside his head; blood pooled in his brain for the last time, washing even the last fragments of his self away.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Plans are all right sometimes," I said. "And sometimes just stirring things up is all right--if you're tough enough to survive, and keep your eyes open so you'll see what you want when it comes to the top.”
― Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

“Like a feather, I let you go. To where you belong.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

“Healing in its essence is about breaking through the fears associated with life—fears”
― James Redfield, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision