"If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves."
- Miguel Syjuco
"Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get."
"To be angry implies you care"
"Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective."
"morality... comes at a price."
"Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness."
"Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective."
"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"
"I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one's own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic inde..."