75 Quotes by Miguel Syjuco

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

Love and honesty don’t mix.

Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.

Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child

When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They’re gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.

I transform fiction into memory.