Catherine-lacey Quote by Catherine Lacey

“I felt myself increasingly unmoored from real life. it was as if the children were ropes tying me to the World. Without them, I…

— Tamar Cohen

“Sometimes, she told herself, life was a series of obstacles that just had to be negotiated, possibly through sheer act of will. She stared…

— Jojo Moyes

“It was realisation, in a moment of time, not only of her own possibilities, far from inconsiderable ones, but also of other possibilities that…

— Anthony Powell

“Staring out to sea, I finally forced myself to stop thinking of her as someone still somewhere, if only in memory, still obscurely alive,…

— John Fowles

“I think about that story a lot now. People in a boat, waiting, terrified, while implacable, unsmiling men, irresistibly strong, seize …. Maybe the…

— Tony Kushner

“And, in the end, I knew there was nothing better in life than keeping the head and the heart up—and when you cannot see…

— Gerald Hausman

“Nothing in my life had prepared me to see things that were strange or beyond belief. I was a simple kid in a simple…

— James Dashner

“I walked to Mairangi Bay beach, day after day, seeking companionship in the roar of the ocean, and contemplating the shipwreck of my life.…

— B.G. Bowers

“My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me; now I felt empty. But that wasn't the worst: before me,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I was an intruder, at best a visitor, and would be even in my home, in my misremembered history, until the glow of phosphorescence…

— Kevin Powers

“Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually…

— Ruta Sepetys

“And it all flew away like a dream--even my passion, and yet it really was strong and true, but...where has it gone now? Indeed…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky