Baba Quote by Jennifer Donnelly

The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block,…

— Penelope Lively

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

— Helene Hanff

But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out…

— Donna Tartt

I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And…

— Andrew Solomon

In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head…

— Francesco Clemente

I was waiting for my hearse. What came next was so much worse. It took a funeral to make me feel alive.

— Sixx AM

I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into…

— Banana Yoshimoto

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

Slipping down into the bedrock 100m inside the partially excavated tomb of Pharaoh Senwosret at Abydos, I really thought I was going to die.…

— Bettany Hughes

I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there,…

— Maria V. Snyder

I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges…

— Irving Howe

I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when I was…

— Genesis P-Orridge