32 Quotes About Early-work

What I want and what's possible aren't necessarily compatible.

the dreamy endlessness of the afternoons spent deep in her own mind.

So I did something that you're not supposed to do, one more addition to an expanding universe of said things.

Unfortunately I'm one of those people who writes better when they're unhappy.

I was mad that I couldn't enjoy it, that I'd made it impossible for myself to have a nice vacation.

I wanted my unhappiness to be a result of defying convention—like a Hardy novel where I'd exceeded my society's allowance for freethinking and was now being punished.

It had occurred to me lately that it was much more possible than I'd previously considered to be both 'self-aware' and fundamentally wrong about the nature of the self.

Our lives aren't worth dying over.

She'd become an idea. She was an abstract thing I wanted, a thing that I already had, really, if I could keep it.