Circumstances Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference…

— Graham Greene

As I grew up I realized, though imperfectly, that I was different from other people, and that the way of life in my home…

— John George Haigh

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but…

— Pierre Loti

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

— Gregory Maguire

There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up…

— Louis Sachar

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

— Albert Camus

The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of…

— Paul Bowles

In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like…

— Albert Camus

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful…

— John Green

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

— Terry Pratchett

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It…

— Jacques Charles