Point of view Quote by Jerome K. Jerome

“: “[George] Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint.”

— William E. Woodward

“I was surrounded by the surgeons and residents and nurses who helped me stay alive when I was born blue and if it weren’t…

— Maria Semple

“Besides, the old man was out of shape, smoked and drank--a walking heart attack.”

— Anne Stuart

“It would have been really easy to spiral down into drugs or alcohol that year, for both of us. But instead we were there,…

— Keary Taylor

“They might be the source of some of my current problems, but they were also the only reason I had to keep going. They…

— Rachel Higginson

“It just wasn't for me, and anyway, those people were a lot more far gone than I was. More in my father's league than…

— Wally Lamb

“...Maude Harris told me that all was well with the world because medical science had profited by the war. That is an epitome of…

— Joe Gould

“There are a lot of them, all around the wsorld, all built a lifetime ago, during the long and spectacular blaze of American military…

— Lee Child

“But now I saw with fresh conviction that is was us, all of us, who were failing, and the hallmark of our failure was…

— Jane Smiley

“it was violent and needy. It was a cancer, spreading inside my body, multiplying into hundreds and thousands of new cells with every beat…

— L.J. Shen

“Even though the Voices were far more intense in the hospital than before, in some ways they were less frightening. When I was in…

— Lori Schiller

“It was a true conversation. About whether our ancestors had more important lives than we do. And how they've managed to trick us, if…

— Barbara Kingsolver