We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them. - Miguel Syjuco
Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality - Miguel Syjuco
If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves. - Miguel Syjuco
Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child - Miguel Syjuco
morality... comes at a price. - Miguel Syjuco
To be angry implies you care - Miguel Syjuco
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective. - Miguel Syjuco
How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions - Miguel Syjuco
...when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if forgiveness is generous or selfish. Maybe both. - Miguel Syjuco
A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have. - Miguel Syjuco
Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective. - Miguel Syjuco