Able Quote by Dith Pran

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half,…

— Rudyard Kipling

. . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my…

— Ernst Udet

The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block,…

— Penelope Lively

Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me... a shape, a combination of shapes,…

— Jeffrey Smart

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting…

— Dani Shapiro

Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the…

— Jodi Picoult

My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes…

— Melina Marchetta

Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an…

— Richard M. Nixon

I realized that I had been living a great part of my life like an ostrich, with my head stuck in the sand. Now…

— James Wasserman

I step back further, until I feel cold tiles against my back. It is then I get the glimmer that I associate with memory.…

— S.J. Watson

In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head…

— Francesco Clemente

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a…

— William Faulkner