Handshake Quote by Fish

“After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into Tellson’s down two steps, and came…

— Dickens Charles

“My hands are clammy. It’s a terrible kind of anticipation, not knowing what we’re walking into. The last time I felt this way I…

— Christina Baker Kline

“I took a last nervous glance at myself in the mirror. I’d brushed the thick waves of my hair until they shimmered down my…

— Lesley Livingston

“It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next…

— Jennifer Egan

“I made a stop, ducking into the supermarket to pick up milk, Diet Pepsi, bread, eggs, and toilet paper. I was into my siege…

— Sue Grafton

“I sprinted down the alley, not fast enough to avoid the cold water rolling down my back, with a childlike shriek. I caught his…

— Veronica Roth

“My calloused hands tell the story of my life. I’ve loved these fields more than a man can love anything outside his family. I’m…

— Brenda Sutton Rose

“There were many days when [I] did not know where my next meal was coming from. But I was never afraid to work, I…

— Nikola Tesla

“Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!”

— Charles Dickens

“While running simple errands I often became hopelessly confused in the maze of crowded, filthy streets that began twenty paces beyond the north gate…

— Ross King

“If a peasant offers you a beautiful fruit with his dirty hands, take it with endless gratitude because his hands became dirty for your…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I stopped at the front desk, about to complain to the doorman, when I was confronted with a NEW doorman, my age but balding…

— Bret Easton Ellis