Vertkov Konstantin Quotes & Sayings

Our memories and the events of our lives are untidy things. We wish that we could file them away and shut the door, or we wish the opposite - that they would stay with us forever. You want to banish the remembrance of a tight hold on your ankle, a rope under a bed, the amber-colored medicine bottles of your father, the door your mother slams after a night of too much wine and jealousy. You want to keep close to you always that first sweet kiss, a maple leaf, that growing sense of yourself; you want to hold the sight of your dying father on that last boat trip, the calm you remember as your mother held you. Her voice. — Deb Caletti

Never let employment hinder you from fulfillment — Sunday Adelaja

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist. — Don DeLillo

Most people lie and let life play upon them like the tepid discharges of a douche-bag. — Lawrence Durrell