Farewell Quote by Charles Tennyson Turner

“When the leaves began to fall, all the visitors were gone, and the whistle from the train passing through Orange gave a long, lonesome,…

— Edna Lewis

“Now he slept soundly through the nights, and often he dreamed of trains, and often of one particular train: He was on it; he…

— Denis Johnson

“I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the best days…

— Dave Matthes

“Shortly after, the aqueous symphony of dawn began. The last day of the Walk came up wet and overcast. The wind howled down the…

— Stephen King

When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear…

— Jack Kerouac

“That's a sweet piece," said Jean, briefly forgetting to be aggravated. "You didn't snatch that off a street." "No," said Locke, before taking another…

— Scott Lynch

“He wondered who was driving the train and whether they were headed toward home or away from home. Did the engineer know where love…

— Pete Nelson

“That night, before he tried to sleep, Louie prayed. He had prayed only once before in his life, in childhood, when his mother was…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“But he had come here today to stand one final time at the top of one particular signal bridge that he had come to…

— Michael Chabon

“He thought of leaving for good every time he heard the long, mournful whistle of the train. He told me it's called wanderlust--that need…

— M.K. Asante

“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose…

— Denis Johnson

“That feeling about trains, for instance. Of course he had long outgrown the boyish glamour of the steam-engine. Yet there was something that had…

— Georges Simenon