“She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.”

— Banana Yoshimoto, book Hardboiled & Hard Luck

Source: Hardboiled & Hard Luck

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Japanese writer 1964

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Ironside

“Rodriguez: When my mother read Hunger of Memory, she was horrified by it and she asked me, as an accusation, "Why did you hold these things in all of your years against me, why didn't you tell me? If I offended you by talking about how dark you were in the summer why didn't you tell me that? And tell me to stop? Why do you hold that for another 25 years and then spill it all out?"”

Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist

Good question, Mama. Good question.
Violating the Boundaries: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez (1999)

“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.”

Zadie Smith (1975) British writer

“I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.”

Sonya Hartnett (1968) Australian writer

Source: The Ghost's Child

“We were aware of her profile, and it was… first, it’s artistic: can she do it? Is she capable of handling this? Can she handle it emotionally? The song. Because it’s a very emotional song. Can she handle it melodically? Does she have the range for it? Second, now then, you’ve got that, now you look to see…because it’s a very strange duet, and I’ve always said it was meant to be a duet. I had the song in ’86, and I don’t care what anybody else says; I know it was my song, it was given to me in ’86, I was gonna do it, it was always gonna be a duet, and I think the only real life of it is a duet. And that’s my opinion, and my opinion only. That’s it. But when it’s a duet, it’s a definitive duet. And then because of how it’s a call-and-response duet, you needed the timbre of the voices. If you get someone with the same timbres… I’m being analytical, but that’s exactly why we picked Marion Raven. And then on the fourth hand… what, she’s twenty-two years old? She can get MTV where I can’t!”

Meat Loaf (1947) American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor

On working with Marion Raven in a duet performance of "It's All Coming Back to Me Now".
A chat with Meat Loaf (2006)

“After a minute he said, "It's like-I don't know how to describe it, but it's like I belong with Jade. She really sees me. I mean, not the outside stuff. She sees me inside, and she likes me. Nobody else has ever done that…except you.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

“Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Variant: I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.
Source: Tender Is the Night

“She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.”

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