Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado Quotes
To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.
It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.
Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.
Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?
Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.
Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.