Quote by David Mitchell

“When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.”

— Cedric Nye

Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy…

— Cesare Pavese

“Yesterday we buried the woman who raised me, tethering my heart strings to both heaven and earth.”

— Rose Chandler Johnson

“Nailed to the beloved body like a slave to a cross, I have learned some secrets of life which are now dimmed in my…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.”

— Paul

“And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life.”

— David Marusek

“All my internal women and children wanted to create greatness. They held my spiritual bones wherever I was, all that time.”

— Tsholofelo Lehaha

“Even as she began to slip into the gloaming of her life, the primal need to live…to survive...clawed at her soul.”

— R.W. Patterson

“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely at home…

— Eudora Welty

“Oh, how crafty of religion, I cried out indignantly, to transplant rewards and punishments into a future life in order to comfort cowards and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Limping, attendants rushed up to support him, Attendants made of gold who looked like real girls, With a mind within, and a voice, and…

— Homer

“-I am being killed by what keeps me from dying. And next the sea became very small no bigger than a bathtub. Rolling in…

— Hélène Cixous