Left Quote by Gish Jen

“when one had taken that first determined step out into the rest of one’s life, one had to keep on striding forward—or retreat and…

— Mary Balogh

“There were obstacles that were beyond your control. sometimes you had to know when to walk away”

— J.S. Cooper

“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the…

— Kristin Kimball

“A strange stillness had settled over him, as well, a waiting. The earth was shifting beneath him, and he had the hideous suspicion that…

— Anne Stuart

“I wanted to speak with someone, but found no time; sought some fixed point, but found none. In the midst of the unrelenting forward…

— Robert Walser

“The leaving happened slowly, gradually, as these things do, and before we knew it, we were lost to each other, as if a magician…

— Kathryn Stern

“Did they realise, as they sat huddled together in the corner of the snug, that they were all outsiders in one way or another?…

— Christopher Fowler

“Sometimes we are called back to the things we most want to flee, perhaps because they left such a mark that we don’t know…

— Laura van den Berg

“there often comes a moment, in the heat of your desperation, when you call a “time-out.” And you withdraw from the cyclone of illusion…

— Rasha

“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

“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself had no…

— Leo Tolstoy

“They had each survived into adulthood by proceeding warily, yet now they were expected to walk with a heavy step and newfound power through…

— Thomas Mullen