Quote by David Levithan

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“He's like a lake. You assume it has great depths, pure undisturbed undiscoverable depths. You assume depths must be there because the surface is…

— Melanie Thernstrom

“He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.”

— Jess Walter

“Sometimes I feel so alone in the world. A tiny speck of nothing in a sea of emptiness.”

— Edwyna Hughes

“what if we still thought the world was flat?”

— Gy Williams

“And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world,…

— Jonathan Franzen

“The world seems so meaningless when I am engulfed in the bliss of love and you tracing the evolution of the restless soul of…

— Annie Ali

“And though we have all the comforts of the world, we find no comfort in them.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“In spite of everything, he still felt wonderful, like I was embracing a mountain. But I now knew that as solid as he seemed,…

— Brent Hartinger

“Wouldn’t it be nice if the world was flat? That way we could just push off the people we don’t like.”

— Anonymous

“There is hardly anything at all. His life is suddenly a large, empty house, with each vacant room waiting to be furnished. His made-up…

— Dan Chaon

“He didn’t want to be this thin man whose desires were barely covered by skin, standing absolutely still. But everytime he moved there was…

— Stephen Dunn