“That’s it, that’s it! All the way, take it all the way! Hold back nothing!”

-Kazuo Ishiguro
The Unconsoled

“We construct reality in our own image. Our desires always multiply as our ideas do.”

-Ugo Foscolo
The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

“I stood waiting with some concern. Then finally she turned round and looked at me. Not unkindly, oh no, but she looked at me, it was a particular look. The look of someone confirming with her eyes what she had been thinking. Yes, that’s what it was, and I knew then that she had finally seen through me.”

– Kazuo Ishiguro
The Unconsoled

“He smiled understandingly – much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced – or seemed to face – the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself”

– F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.”

-Lin Yutang

“Colors, textures and the way we reveal our body shape can enhance, reflect and effect our every mood, emotion and thought.  Fashion has the power to fuel our souls and create a specific audience of energy in our lives.  Welcome to my psychology of style, this is wearapy.”

-Jeannie Mai

“I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. One can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a window pane.”

-George Orwell

“I have more than once observed that, in my second character, my faculties seemed sharpened to a point and my spirits more tensely elastic; thus it came about that, where Jekyll perhaps might have succumbed, Hyde rose to the importance of the moment.”

-Robert Lewis Stevenson
Jekyll & Hyde

“When asleep we go back to the old ways of looking at things and of feeling about them, to impulses and activities which long ago dominated us, in a way which seems impossible in the waking hours, when the later self is in the ascendant. In this way the rhythmic change from wakefulness to sleep effects a recurrent reinstatement of our ‘dead selves,’ an overlapping of the successive personalities, the series of whose doings and transformations constitutes our history”

-James Sully
The Dream as a Revelation