Quote by Jennifer Egan Download Open image ““If wishing could make men die, there’d be nary a live one left.” As suddenly”” — Jennifer Egan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I wish...I wish I were dead...” “And what use would that be to anyone?” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Do you wish you would die? No. But I might wish I had died. When you’re alive you’ve always got that ahead of you.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Maybe it will die on its own, a hopeful voice whispered, but the general suppressed the thought. Wishes were for victims.” — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“I'm only one man, and I only have one life, and I'm not going to waste it regretting my decisions and wishing I could… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“I could die today, if I wished, merely by making a little effort, if I could wish, if I could make an effort. But… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Behind the desk was nothing but view-the whole city flung out in front of us the way street vendors fling out their towels packed… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will not only… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Thousands of solar panels lift and tilt at the same time, in the same way. I clutch at Dad's arm: "Why are they doing… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“The seconds pass. I know what’s going on because it’s the same thing that always happens: give me something nice, something I love or… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image