Depressing Quote by Jacqueline Rayner

“Mornings we woke and hoped something would arrive for us, but rarely did anything arrive. Because we felt powerless, we went to war over…

— TaraShea Nesbit

Humiliation, sexual harassment, fear and starvation was the order of the day until around 10 P. M. Interrogators made sure that I had no…

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

“Three very crowded hours went past. They involved quite a lot of phone calls, telexes, and faxes. Twenty-seven people were got out of bed…

— Terry Pratchett

I can remember, as a child, the happy days of us all piling into the car and going to the drive-in. And that was…

— Susan Burton

“Cafés overflowed anytime but early mornings, for there were few commuters in the neighborhood at that time. After noon, the self-employed, or unemployed, hipsters…

— Phoebe Damrosch

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a…

— John Cusack

That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so…

— K.J. Parker

Covid time was not a fun time, I'll say that much. There was probably a week and a half there that was pretty miserable.…

— Lindsey Horan

“I arrived at 7.04 p.m. only to find that the bar did not open until 9.00 p.m. Incredible. No wonder people make mistakes at…

— Graeme Simsion

“A nurse and a social worker took fifteen minutes out of their shitty thankless job in the roughest corner of town, sat on a…

— Laura Buzo

When London first went into lockdown, Mum and I were in the car listening to the radio. We drove to our local Turkish supermarket…

— Miquita Oliver