Quote by Alan James Roll

“Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others.”

— Doris Lessing

“A revolution is taking place within her, as though a lifetime's experience could be outdistanced in the span of a conversation.”

— A.S.A. Harrison

“They, too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape, centuries dead; they'd had the experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and…

— donna tartt

“Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack…

— J.G. Ballard

“It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history.”

— Ruth Ozeki

“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

“Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the…

— Scott Westerfeld

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

“A new generation forgets the specters that may have tormented the old… And yet, always, to all eternity, it is the same specter assailing…

— Halldór Laxness

“Another hundred years were ground up and churned, and what had happened was all muddied by the way folks wanted it to be --…

— John Steinbeck

“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it…

— Dave Hutchinson