Building blocks Quote by Haruki Murakami

“Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building…

— Haruki Murakami

“I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains…

— Michael Ondaatje

“The terror and hurt in my story happened because when I was young I thought others were the authors of my fortune or misfortune;…

— Sebastian Barry

“Appearing as a character in my brother’s books taught me something about myself. For most of my life, my history as an abused child…

— John Elder Robison

“When young we think there will come one person who will savor and sustain us always; when we are older we know this is…

— Brian Doyle

“Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.”

— Stendhal

“I should have celebrated my life as it was, imperfections, sadness and all, and not forensically examined its faults. Those faults were largely in…

— Gilly Macmillan

“Yes, he was young—way too young, she was well aware of that unfortunate fact—but there was something to be said for youth, wasn’t there?…

— Tom Perrotta

“At sixteen, he was cursed with all the certainty of youth, unleavened by any trace of humor or self-doubt, and wed to the arrogance…

— George R. R. Martin

“I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains…

— Michael Ondaatje

“He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed my being. It pricked up its ears…

— Susan Choi