“They walked on in silence. Katie's heart was beating with a rapidity that forbade speech. Nothing like this very direct young man… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I will not die for a long time." Joseph tugged at his gray beard. "My beard goes white, but there's a lot… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“He didn't think that his friend would kill the man, but he realized with more than a little nervousness that he didn't… — Michael G. Munz Copy Share Image
Customs, morals — is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A voice stirs across my mind—one similar to the Cailleach’s, but not old and frightened and dying. This voice is powerful. It… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting.… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“I don't know when I died. It always seemed to me I died old, about ninety years old, and what years, and… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I would never kill myself intentionally. I couldn't do that to my family, my friends ... But to have fate step in… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
“Everything went black in the shocking folds of his embrace. She was very startled and near to sobbing. 'Caw, caw,' echoed his… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
To take one example, I mean, the whole issue of bathrooms and gender - in this particular election, when the stakes were… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Where were you all this time? she said. Where have you been? I guess far away. Yes you were. Too far away.… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“TINA: Oh, Rick, Rick, I’m scared. What’s happened to us? I can’t seem to find us any more. I reach out and… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
“At evening when the lamp is lit, The tired Human People sit And doze, or turn with solemn looks The speckled pages… — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable… — Frances Farmer Copy Share Image
“So tonight I reach for my journal again. This is the first time I’ve done this since I came to Italy. What… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I make a joke of it, but... but I'm afraid of death." He straightened up and turned to look into Joseph's eyes.… — Gilbert Morris Copy Share Image
“I imagine there's a timid animal inside me...When it's afraid, I feel it tremble. It can't hear. It only knows the fear… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“She was using the water as she had used the fruit earlier—to calm herself, to assure herself of the possibility of normality.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I… — Lowell Ganz Copy Share Image
“A real panic took hold of me. I didn't know where I was going. I ran along the docks, turned into the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I’d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasn’t that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“So I take a deep breath. Step forward. Let go. 10 seconds and I'm trying to breathe 9 And I'm trying to… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
