Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
ADAM JOHNSONActing upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
ADAM JOHNSONImagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
ADAM JOHNSONIn my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
ADAM JOHNSONSometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down!
ADAM JOHNSONI am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
ADAM JOHNSONOnce the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you’ve taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!
ADAM JOHNSONOrphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
ADAM JOHNSONThe death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
ADAM JOHNSON. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
ADAM JOHNSONThe urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer’s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.
ADAM JOHNSONThat hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
ADAM JOHNSONAll the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
ADAM JOHNSONLife brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
ADAM JOHNSONBut people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
ADAM JOHNSONThe next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
ADAM JOHNSONThe darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
ADAM JOHNSON