Old things Quote by Ari Berk

“Uncle seemed to take pleasure from knowing things other people didn’t. Silas did not like thinking this about the man who’d given them a…

— Ari Berk

“He seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection. Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an…

— George Eliot

“At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet…

— Neil Gaiman

“Silas was tired of living in a world where everyone and everything held its breath.”

— Ari Berk

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

“Uncle George was William's godfather, and he was intensely interested in William's upbringing. It was an interest with which William would gladly have dispensed.…

— Richmal Crompton

“For as long as he could remember he had never ceased to wonder why, having arms and legs like everyone else, and a language…

— Boris Pasternak

“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no he saw…

— W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham

“He had good, open features and a confident air; his blue eyes were wide and watchful, but something about them seemed to hint that…

— Sarah Brazytis

“Silas didn't plan on going to the grave anytime soon, and he wasn't going to be a pauper when he did.”

— Dianne Salerni

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“Both their attention and their neglect were equally intolerable. His world had become complicated and interesting and magical. Theirs was mundane and domestic. They…

— Lev Grossman