Kristen Schaer

“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.”
― Norman Maclean, River Runs Through It

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

“It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories