Baskets Quote by Dave Eggers

He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that…

— Michael Ondaatje

“What happened then was that, for an instant, almost nothing happened. He wasn't even there. Failure didn't even cross his mind. It felt like…

— Colum McCann

He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know…

— Neil Gaiman

“During the 1980s, he went jogging, something he had picked up during his stays in California, but when he found that the pleasure promised…

— Benoît Peeters

“He stopped and leaned against a pole and looked up at the deaf and swollen sky. It was a movement of dark shapes, a…

— Charles Beaumont

“She suddenly felt herself gasping for air, as if she’d momentarily forgotten how to breathe. She rocked back in her chair and nearly fell…

— Joe DeRouen

“To expand his lung capacity, he ran to the public pool at Redondo Beach, dove to the bottom, grabbed the drain plug, and just…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“He had seen her glowing silhouette slip past his window and had watched her as she stood there, completely still, arms tangled in the…

— Laekan Zea Kemp

“That’s when he’d run and run until he was nothing more than two feet and a pair of lungs, until he coughed blood and…

— Carmen Amato

He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease in his…

— Rick Riordan

“Able closed his eyes. He was running. The grass was green with spring and fragrant, knee-high and cushioning his steps. And there was sun…

— Lance Weller

“he tried not to look back as the stale bread disintegrated in his stomach. A few times, he shifted again and watched the lights…

— Markus Zusak