Bridges Quote by Ivo Andric

“But while the residents were shocked by the violence, they were also often surprised by the mundaneness of it all. Discovered the extent of…

— Kiran Desai

“The novice screenwriter didn't see that final flourish as the characters killing themselves. She thought it carried to the extreme an irrepressible impetus to…

— Becky Aikman

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until…

— V. S. Naipaul

“At first cautiously, later indifferently, at last desperately, I wandered up the stairs and along the pavement of the inextricable palace. (Afterwards I learned…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there;…

— Willa Cather

“At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never drag themselves out of…

— Camus Albert

“...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping…

— Jane Austen

“Since the military part of town could not tolerate disarray and the commercial part found it unprofitable, all of the chaos had been pushed…

— Neal Stephenson

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin…

— Oscar Wilde

“And the downtrodden found refuge in dilapidation; and were happy there because it was theirs and no one else's; bare of pretences and expectations,…

— C.M. Stunich

“But it was the center of the room that drew my eyes, for there was a great circular table, covered in a glass dome,…

— Rosamund Hodge

“... their lives were full of quiet drama, full of vague yet thrilling signs that life was not as the common run supposed it…

— John Crowley