"The Lacuna" Quotes

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort.

Sometimes we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

To fling my arms wide in some place of the sun, to whirl and to dance till the white day is done. Then rest at cool evening beneath a tall tree while night comes on gently, dark like me. That is my dream!

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

Life is very good, and it's also very bad. I'm not going to tell you what to think about it because I don't know.

Some days I think this one place isn't enough. That's when nothing is enough, when I want to live multiple lives and be allowed to love without limits.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.

Everyone needed to draw the line, to draw the line and say this far and no further.

The bravest of us were afraid of the dark.