Good thing Quote by Jean Ferris

“He had an impeccable sense of timing, knew when to wait and when to move, and declared the state even before it was ready,…

— Daniel Gordis

“But there was something at once chilling and off-putting in the sudden distance that crept between us in the most unexpected moments. It was…

— André Aciman

“it seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that pleasureless yielding…

— George Eliot

“I waited for him to find an answer. Minutes passed. It came to me that he had quit. He had glimpsed a glorious ideal,…

— John Gardner

“He began to see the situation from another angle. An assignment had been given him. Someone’s life, a small set of lives had been…

— Anne Tyler

“His was the coiled, urgent restlessness of a person who believed that fate had mistakenly allotted him a place below his true destiny.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“But he had underestimated the strangeness of talking about the future of his life with someone for whom the future still seemed unbounded: a…

— Zadie Smith

“He is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.”

— Tennessee Williams

“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for…

— Saul Bellow

“He kept expecting something to happen, some outside force to sweep in and change everything and take him in some new direction, give him…

— Hannah Tinti

“We seem to have lost the gift of patience, of waiting for time to unfold its story.”

— Mary Irish

“And he returned to his books, which had never asked him for anything he could not provide. That”

— Paulo Coelho