Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that. - Margaret Atwood

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us — who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.