Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““Aloft," intoned the damaged man.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Inside, a piece of him cracked; it was as though an emotion that had calcified into bone got tapped with a tiny hammer and… — cris beam Copy Share Image
“One hit, one moan of fractured air, one solid impact and the man went down.” — L.G. Kelso Copy Share Image
“That man would have chipped away at your heart bit by bit until there was nothing left. It may have been bruised, but at… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“The entered the building twenty-strong. Rider in front with his two meanest assholes flanking him. No one would mistake the men had come for… — V. Theia Copy Share Image
“I didn’t move, numb as Al sidled up alongside me and together we eyed Pierce, nervous under our combined scrutiny. “If you give him… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Three heavy blows boxed him low in the back. He saw a splash of red hit the door and had time to think, 'We… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He'd been inside of a storm, all right. He'd been swept up in a tornado of sex and memory, naked regret and short-lived ecstasy.… — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
“This man was hurt, damaged in some fundamental way. She saw it not in those scars upon his body but in the haunted expression… — Emily March Copy Share Image
“The monster inside of him was clawing to break free, while the man inside of him was tempted to fall to his knees and… — Erica Stevens Copy Share Image
“He was beyond damaged. He was broken. Smashed to bloody pieces. He was alone in the world without the one person who could make… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“He was just entering the club ahead of me, a tall and rather emaciated man of about seventy, a little unsteady on his feet.… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
