After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“You need to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
“As she pulled away from her old life, the phone rang. She clicked the speakerphone on. Sam’s ebullient voice spilled from the… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn"… — F. Huegel Copy Share Image
“I let the front door slam shut behind me and the fly screen rattle. It was as if each door was kicking… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
But I understand now what Tori said about her tattoo representing a fear she overcame-a reminder of where she was, as well… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We ring the bells and we raise the strain We hang up garlands everywhere And bid the tapers twinkle fair, And feast… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
“Those are life-and-death-type experiences he goes through in the mines. Eventually he gets out and goes back to his old life. But… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Well, I guess it’s all in God’s hands anyway. He has a way of making things turn out,” Mattie asserted. “Yes, He… — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
“I was amused and surprised by the odd, visceral details that returned to me with each work: Pa bringing the girls real… — Lizzie Skurnick Copy Share Image
Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing… — David Small Copy Share Image
“When God wants to test us, he sometimes takes away what we are craving the most. For reasons only he knows, he… — A.I. Smith Copy Share Image
“She was Remade she was (Remade scum), he knew it, he saw it, and still he felt incessantly what was inside him,… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede.… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Copy Share Image
Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart, said I'm coming back some day, but never did. Because the old life was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“normal feelings for many people, but if I had my old life back right now and the ability to walk, there are… — Rachelle Friedman Copy Share Image
God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through… — Kathryn Kuhlman Copy Share Image
There is my life in Cuba and my life in America, the old life and the new life, and almost nothing about… — Aroldis Chapman Copy Share Image
“While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
