Acquaintance Quote by Jack Kerouac

“It may have been the light at 5:36 on a June evening or it may have been the smell of dust combined with sprinkler…

— Miriam Toews

“She ate her breakfast in silence, then drove downtown in weather so lowering the streetlights seemed decapitated. This was when you could discover if…

— Thomas McGuane

“I may have smiled to myself as I watched the familiar pattern of the town pass, the bus cruising through shade to sunshine. I'd…

— Emma Cline

“In the wee small hours, California Highway One north of Half Moon Bay is about as desolate as it gets. The narrow, twisting road…

— H.P. Oliver

“There was something about that cypress-lined track that drew me to it, tempted me further along it, in spite of the rough road surface…

— Tonia Parronchi

“Everything seemed bright and different after so long in the darkness. Even though most of the businesses were closed, there was one neon sign…

— Sarah Dessen

It all ended with the circuslikewhump of a monstrous box on the ear with which I knocked down the traitress who rolled up in…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted…

— Andrea Gibson

I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as…

— Charles Bukowski

“On my first evening in the back country, I skipped down the porch steps of the farmhouse-leaving my father inside and the radio playing…

— Mitch Cullin

“One woman called me after her grandmother had died. She explained that she had taken some of her grandmother’s furniture. They had put Grandma’s…

— Mary Ann Winkowski

“Christ, don't go to the Haunted Houses with Ally and Indy. A few years ago, Indy went berserk and broke through the hay bales…

— Kristen Ashley