Time Quote by Colson Whitehead

“He expected nothing more from life. Not because he was disappointed or embittered. He expected nothing because there was nothing of importance that he…

— jan-philipp sendker

“A great many people, he had noticed, spent large parts of their time worrying about things they were powerless to alter. Had they concentrated…

— Setterfield Diane

“Those times, against all expectations, were turning out to be good times. Then he felt afraid, because he knew they couldn't last long and…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“When he thought of all he’d seen, done and experienced in his life, all he’d gained, lost, desired and agonized over, he found it…

— D.E. Sievers

“He allowed himself to imagine for the first time that the rest of his life might not be shaped by the misery of his…

— Julie Orringer

“He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“He wished he could communicate what he knew to this frightened boy. But that never did any good anyway. People learned by what they…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse.”

— James T. Farrell

“Everything was to be experienced at the highest pitch of passion and life. To expect something greater after life was to forget that life…

— Nina George

“He had great ideas for change but was too busy with other things to pursue them. He postulated. He pontificated. He spoke glowingly of…

— Abiodun Fijabi

“He couldn't help but give in to the occasional temptation to replay past events in his mind, altering them, changing them from cruel to…

— Kevin Henkes

“He had no more imaginary space, nowhere he could escape to, no more expectations, all he could do was make himself available to the…

— Laurence Cossé