“Mediocrity, I discovered, was the great camouflage; the great protective coloring. Those boys who did not fail, yet did not excel, were… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“But, as I have said, the bugs had no interest in getting us…and no great curiosity or enthusiasm about us as such;… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Milkers don’t spend half as long with their mothers." Eli spread his chore coat over Little Joe. "Not more than a few… — Sandra Neil Wallace Copy Share Image
“Left alone in the room with Gavin, Alex let out a sigh. "I fear I won't be able to find a way… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“Until death," Jem replied gently. "Those are the words of the oath. 'Until aught but death part thee and me.' Someday, Will,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I don't think there is life beyond death, I don't. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone. — Kirsten Olson Copy Share Image
“The stories we are told as children do, undoubtedly, mark us for life. They are often stories of dark and terrible things,… — Neil Bartlett Copy Share Image
“The function of ritual and myth is to make possible, and then to facilitate, the jump—by analogy. Forms and conceptions that the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I can't imagine anything worse than being just left alone, scared out of your mind. — Melissa McBride Copy Share Image
Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I can guarantee that back in the day, if a woman was left alone and she needed to eat, she would have… — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone. — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“College students were instructed to sit by themselves for up to fifteen minutes in a sparsely furnished, unadorned room and “entertain themselves… — James Kingsland Copy Share Image
“Chris smiled at me, showing two ridiculously cute dimples and a few feet away a waitress dropped an empty cup she had… — Karen Lynch Copy Share Image
“Stuck in my own trap of writing about a nonsubject, I think I can defend my own self-respect, and also the integrity… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It took me a while to realize--but thankfully realized before it was too late--that a fancy house, car, and cable television don't… — Shawn Weeks Copy Share Image
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The point of making children sleep alone, according to Western psychologists, is to make them “self-soothing,” but that clearly runs contrary to… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
People all want and need different emotional responses - some people like to be talked down when they're angry; some people want… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
I like to be left alone. I need my space. I'm always thinking & need to recharge sometimes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oryx,” he says. “I know you’re there.” He repeats the name. It’s not even her real name, which he’d never known anyway;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
