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“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it is very difficult to find anyone. ”

—J. R. R. Tolkien

“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”

—James Baldwin

“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while." ”

—Haruki Murakami 

“Have you ever had that feeling? That you'd like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?”

—Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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“I don't think there's anything sadder than when two people are meant to be together and something intervenes.”

—Walter Bishop

“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.”

— Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake. ”

—Rumi, from R.o.s.e

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. ”

—Lemony Snicket

“We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”

—Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.”

—Maya Angelou

“The poem is what has neither name, nor rest, nor place, nor home: fissure moving towards the work.”

—Jacques Garelli, from “Excess of Poetry”, trans. Mary Ann Caws

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”

—Virginia Woolf, from Selected Essays

“a very strange but emtional short story about for one another. this novella may not appeal to everyone due to it’s unorthodox sexual content but if you can look past that the story may be worth the read.”

 

From a How to Shake the Other Man Goodreads review. In addition to the novella’s brilliance, it also has a special knack for identifying homophobia.

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

—Kahlil Gibran
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