Description Quote by Ann Patchett

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man…

— Edith Wharton

There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would…

— Cassandra Clare

“He was almost there, ready to hang up his wings, to leave behind everyone who mattered to him. To descend into a pit of…

— Jay Allan

The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced…

— Paulo Coelho

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that…

— Edith Wharton

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion.…

— Patrick Süskind

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

— Alice Hoffman

He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven…

— William Golding

“He realized the things he had left behind were already hiding inside him; now, for the first time, his life had a past, a…

— Bruce Brooks

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more…

— Anonymous

He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something…

— Cormac McCarthy