Broads Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I didn't have the luxury of living only in a single moment. I had to live in a hundred fractured moments that held our…

— Mary E. Pearson

“I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures as well as…

— Charlotte Brontë

“This busyness was not about money--despite the chic catalogs piled on the kitchen table. It was only marginally about good-heartedness or politics. I was…

— Mary Sojourner

“And as I worked, the strength returned to my arms and shoulders, and the hope to my heart - not the mad hope of…

— Jem Poster

“There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a…

— Charles Dickens

“Well, I had often pondered all this, not without an intense longing sometimes to turn to and do something real for once, to be…

— Hermann Hesse

“I have a great longing for a particular sort of world in which one can work and breathe and sometimes be insanely happy. At…

— Anna Seghers

“The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.”

— Vikas Swarup

“Some days, my life flashes before me in the blink of an eye, until I get to the scenes I wish I could change,…

— Rebecca Raisin

“I’ve lived on borrowed time. More than any man deserves. I’ve seen wonders beyond my wildest imaginings. Through these centuries, against the impossibility that…

— Sleepy Hollow Press

“At any given time, we all have room to grow and bloom, no matter where we are planted. No matter our season of life,…

— Ruth Soukup

“But while her world was soft and comfortable, offering everything I could ever want, it all came too easy. There was something to be…

— Alyson Noel