Chance Quote by Helen Hodgman

“Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?”

— Nalini Singh

“Life was funny, and fickle, and often cruel. Sometimes the unworthy went on living, while those who deserved better was lost. Or not lost,…

— Nicholas Eames

“When you are on the edge of death you are no longer a child. You understand things you couldn’t even comprehend as an adult.”

— Adrienne Wilder

“Now he felt the despair his father had felt as the familiar world slipped from around him, the valleys gashed and ugly, the woods…

— Rohinton Mistry

“During that time, the world seemed completely unforgiving. I was a single father at age twenty-six, divorced after a meaningless marriage that had lasted…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“He wondered what his father had been thinking in those last final moments as he was slipping away, whether the heroism, the honour, the…

— Barry Kirwan

“There was something about the people you grew up around, the ones you'd seen throughout your childhood, the folks you couldn't remember not knowing.…

— J.R. Ward

“He turned and looked at the boy. Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien. A…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he…

— Cormac McCarthy

“At one point in life, every son would look back at his father and think. I am not just like him, I am him.”

— Midhun Jackson

“He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence…

— Graham Greene

“There were times when he sat watching the boy sleep that he would begin to sob uncontrollably but it wasn't about death. He wasn't…

— Cormac McCarthy