Young boy Quote by Ann Voskamp

“He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at. A body…

— Mark Twain

“I am puffed clay, blown up and set down. That I fall like Adam is not surprising: I plunge, waft, arc, pour, and dive.…

— Annie Dillard

“The enormity of the world grew and grew inside Adam, and he didn’t know if he could hold it. He was just a boy.…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I want Adam to be happy, Kenji, I really do. But he and I would end up like water going nowhere." "What do you…

— Tahereh Mafi

“What the mud had been doing with itself, or where it came from, who could say? But it seemed to collect in a moment,…

— Charles Dickens

“Adam seemed clothed in a viscosity that slowed his movements and held his thoughts down. He saw the world through gray water. Now and…

— John Steinbeck

“watched a father slap his 8-year-old son in the face. I watched Adam fall to the floor and”

— Tahereh Mafi

“This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs…

— Frank Herbert

“the old stories were right, she thought, and man had been first made from a handful of dust, here was Adam himself: all mud,…

— Sarah Perry

“We jumped into water so clear and warm that it was like jumping from air to air. The sand rose up under us and…

— Elisabeth Eaves

“Life is a river,' he once told me, 'and we all have to find a boat that floats.”

— Thad Carhart

“The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the…

— Richard Brautigan