“The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet. "May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased him from… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use them to pay… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Does Ebui dream of a private grave? People in fancy dress eulogizing, laying down their offerings. Or does she dream past the… — Johnny Firic Copy Share Image
“For a moment Carl tried to picture everything in his mind, and then it happened. Somewhere inside of him, where cause and… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
“The decrees of society are temporary ones; what Tolstoy is interested in are the eternal demands of morality.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“This is not to say a writer has only one voice or is limited to the scope of her backyard. But in… — George Ella Lyon Copy Share Image
“A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Only… — Henry Martin Copy Share Image
“I don’t care if the streets of Heaven are gold or not as long as they’re clean and I don’t have to… — John Northcutt Young Copy Share Image
“There are moments when understanding arrives without words — and once it does, you know that life has already changed.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
“A castaway adrift on my own little island - rich and with my family along with thousands of beautiful, drunken tourists to… — Luis Mario Copy Share Image
“A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary… — Agona Apell Copy Share Image
“...she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
