Amy Quote by Diana Peterfreund

“Why was he in this state? Or perhaps the question was why had he not always been in this state? Why had he not…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“Why was he there?   How”

— Heidi Kreider

“It was never possible for him to be where he was. For as long as he lived, he was somewhere else, between here and…

— Paul Auster

“He was my life and now he is nothing.”

— Willow Aster

“Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always…

— Simon Van Booy

“Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular world seemed…

— Ann Brashares

“He hurt everywhere, so at least he must be alive. Another comforting thought because, despite everything, he wanted to be alive. It was the…

— John Martel

“He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as…

— Victoria Schwab

“He could not be positive that reason was much help in the conduct of life. It seemed to him that life lived itself. He”

— William Somerset Maugham

“He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Wasn’t it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of things he hadn’t really wanted to…

— Richard Yates

“I used to trouble about what life was for. Now being alive seems sufficent reason.”

— Joanna Field