E-lockhart Quote by E. Lockhart

“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but…

— Fredrik Backman

“Somewhere, I am sure, a calm, quiet place awaits me where I may do something worthwhile again. Another island, perhaps. Or a little cottage…

— Roger Rosenblatt

“It was a lovely landscape. It was idyllic, poetical, and it inspired me. I felt good and noble. I felt I didn't want to…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“And yet, and yet. This place exerts an elemental pull on me. There is no end of fascinations. People talk all the time, calling…

— Teju Cole

“But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that reached through…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“My bed was an island within the desolate sea of my room. Yet I knew that there were other people homebound from illness or…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and…

— David McCullough

“I GREW UP IN THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS BUT THESE DAYS, I LIVE IN THE STATE OF CONSTANT ANXIETY. Delilah Sinclair, checking her bank…

— Julie Johnson

“I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each…

— Joseph Conrad

“In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary…

— Robert Moffat

“Back then life was simple and sweet. Everything was simple and sweet. The taste of cherries, the cool shade, the fresh smell of the…

— Cyril Pedrosa

“I think places take hold of us and we become mere parts of the landscape, taking on its quirks and follies.”

— Ali Shaw