Behinds Quote by Abraham Verghese

“What the hell are you doing up there?' So he slipped, of course, because he was startled, and because fate, having been so kind…

— Gregory Maguire

“Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.

— John Burroughs

“He got down easily by dropping uncontrollably from branch to branch until he landed on his head in a pile of pine needles, where…

— Terry Pratchett

“Then he had kept himself to himself, "in the way you might stick by a tree, which might be rotten, but at least it's…

— Thomas Bernhard

The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one…

— Peter Ackroyd

“The main hallway of the Sternwood place was two stories high. Over the entrance doors, which would have let in a troop of Indian…

— Raymond Chandler

“And so what moved him onward and down the office building’s stairway was not any sort of foolish hope that he could actually be…

— Neal Stephenson

From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.

— Rumi

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

— Patricia Briggs

“He peered up the ladder. In his young imagination, it must have reached the clouds. ”

— Bruce Wilkinson