Well, one must be a slave to something in this kind of a…

“Mrs. Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn't much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you…

— L.M. Montgomery

“No sooner do we come into this world,’ said Flaubert, ‘than bits of us start to fall off.”

— Julian Barnes

“She said we are all part of a secret club. Someday, she said, we will take over the earth. It will be people like…

— Rene Denfeld

“Each of us has his place in the world " he said. "If we cannot serve in one way there is always another. If…

— Marguerite de Angeli

When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts…But if success is…

— Anna Quindlen

“You’re my world,” he said, putting down the glass. “You’re mine to protect.”

— Chloe Neill

“If only there weren't so many other people in the world,' he said lugubriously.”

— D. H. Lawrence

“Clearly we have all the time in the world,” she said crossly. “Feel free to start way back with the dinosaurs—just as long as…

— Kai Meyer

“You can win the world, she said, if you’re willing to lose your soul.”

— Max Gladstone

“He had no place in the world, he said once, therefore he could go everywhere.”

— Patricia A. McKillip

“hope is a knife that can cut through the foundations of the world,” said”

— Seanan McGuire

And then there was my mate who'd just been fitted with a brand new hearing aid. "It's the best in the world", he said.…

— Billy Connolly

“In many parts of the world you were what you said and what you did and, also, what you read; in Turkey, as in…

— Elif Shafak

“In another world,' he said, lowering his voice; I remember... was it not in another world, in a life which was not in thrall…

— Charles Nodier

“matters. Do you think, my daughters, that it is an easy matter to have to do business with the world, to live in the…

— Teresa of Ávila