Familiar faces Quote by Ivor W. Hartmann

“Someone was always leaving and never coming back. The wooden houses wait like old wives along this road; they are everywhere, abandoned, leaning, turning…

— Lisel Mueller

“He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody's missing. Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up. Nobody is ever missing.”

— John Berryman

“... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Something happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, were something happened, and then there are…

— Alice Munro

“They were here from the beginning. They have reshaped our lives, run us from our homes. They were always here.”

— Nadège Richards

“Perhaps they don't realize where they were, so they went on living.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

“Always near, but never there...”

— Oren Lavie

“It was the sort of house that you never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected places.”

— C.S. Lewis

“It seemed to him that nothing would ever be explained, and that all of a sudden each day was slipping away, that time was…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“In the night, when the wind dies and silence rules the place of glittering stone, I remember. And they all live again.”

— Glen Cook

“Maybe this isn't home, nor ever was- maybe home is where I have to go tonight. Home is the place where when you go…

— Stephen King

“It was never possible for him to be where he was. For as long as he lived, he was somewhere else, between here and…

— Paul Auster