Quote by Bret Anthony Johnston Download Open image ““The strange and scattered pieces of ourselves we leave behind,”” — Bret Anthony Johnston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Sometimes we need to go home to find the parts of ourselves we left behind before we can truly become whole.” — Sandra Kring Copy Share Image
“Maybe each of us was once a complete whole. A clear picture. A single piece. Then something happened to crack and shatter us. Leaving… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“When there's nothing left to hide, we break ... Everyone is alone when they face themselves. We can stand against a thousand strangers but… — Sarah Buhl Copy Share Image
“We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt… — Richard Taylor Copy Share Image
“Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden.” — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
“Maybe in some distant place, everything is already, quietly, lost. Or at least there exists a silent place where everything can disappear. Or at… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“This man, who’d rushed in to hold together all the splintering pieces of my world and forced them back together before they were completely destroyed and unrepairable. … I felt bound to him in an unfathomable way. As if when he’d been holding those splintering pieces together, the man had managed to chip away a small piece of my soul.… — A.L. Jackson Copy Share
“... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“for years, maybe for my whole life, it felt as though there was a brick wall down the middle of everything. Standing outside those… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
“I ponder the rhythms of letting go and embracing whatever is around the corner, trusting that the empty spaces will be filled. And knowing… — Joyce Hollyday Copy Share Image
“Be careful: everything fades, everything vanishes. Something must remain of us…” — André Breton Copy Share Image
The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill, vision or… — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough… — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions. — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
“EVERY WEDNESDAY, I teach an introductory fiction workshop at Harvard University, and on the first day of class I pass out a bullet-pointed list… — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog. — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
“Really, once the worst happens, it’s always happening. It’s never not happening.” — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
