Bare feet Quote by Jack Kerouac

“It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedom had vanished. I knew then…

— Belinda Jeffrey

“I know the secret that the me lying beneath the sky could not imagine: I know that would go on, that she would grow…

— John Green

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler

“I just know that, at that moment, I remember feeling like the world had turned itself inside out. It's the child who's supposed to…

— Jodi Picoult

“She reminded him of (...) all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice…

— Joseph Heller

“But for reasons she would never be able to articulate to anyone, herself included, she took a few steps more into the despairing darkness…

— Casey Fisher

“The girl looked at the mess she had made, at the ax, the shattered immortal, and the gouts of dark blood all around, and…

— Tamora Pierce

“And then she grew uneasy and full of gloom and thought to herself that if the child were joy yet was it a new…

— Pearl S. Buck

“-I am being killed by what keeps me from dying. And next the sea became very small no bigger than a bathtub. Rolling in…

— Hélène Cixous

“She's breaking inside, the fragile pieces coming away with the water as it pours down on her. Her sorrow is so tangible, it's as…

— Ker Dukey

“She could not understand why this world, which was so full of beauty and wonder, had to also be so full of horrors.”

— Jeanne DuPrau

“The thought of leaving her alone haunted me. The sadness was suffocating me and twisting my chest and my heart and I couldn't breathe…

— Bernadette Sutherland