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1 " ...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading. "
― Roland Barthes , The Pleasure of the Text
2 " We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls... "
― Gregory Maguire , A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)
3 " If you avoid all of life's abrasions you will never be polished enough to shine. "
― Richelle E. Goodrich , Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
