“You stare at anything long enough and suddenly it looks monstrous.” She had in fact turned away from him to stare at… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The money has always been wasted on me. I don't care for beautiful things, funnily enough. I am my father's daughter. The… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
“It's just incredible. It just does not explain. Or perhaps that's it: they don't explain and we are not supposed to know.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Brigan threw his head back and smiled at the sky. "Well said, Lady. The world may be falling to pieces, but at… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The world may be falling to pieces, but at least the lot of us can have a bath.” — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
“He meditated resentfully on the physical texture of life. Had it always been like this? Had food always tasted like this? He… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that… — Ninni Holmqvist Copy Share Image
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
