Chieko Scharmer

“Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”
― George R.R. Martin

“This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle