Quote by Jim Proser

“They were my parents. Dead. They died in their bed under freakish circumstances three months ago, leaving my brothers and me devastated and bankrupt.”

— James Patterson

“But it’s all the little people, Buk, the twenty-five-buck-a-week guys who gave up everything to keep the thing going. The guys with cardboard in…

— Charles Bukowski

“They were frisky, eager and exuberant, and they had all been friends in the States. They were plainly unthinkable. They were noisy, overconfident, empty-headed…

— Joseph Heller

“...they were too young then to know what they would ultimately need from a barren and heart-sore life...”

— Frank O'Hara

“If these parents had been paying attention from the beginning, not running around like a band of panicked chickens, all of them scrabling for…

— Alexandra Bracken

“We laughed as we ducked behind a pile of snow. Then our brothers came charging through the barrier, sending the four of us sliding…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“I was nothing to them. Just a toy, like Suit said. And they were like a bunch of bratty rich kids who knew that…

— Skye Callahan

“Some people rushed into danger without a thought for their own safety. Others ran away. And some froze. I fitted into the latter group.”

— Estelle Ryan

“They'd tried, him and Snow. They'd tried and they'd failed, and that felt so much better than not having tried at all.”

— Stephen Deas

“He grabbed his brothers. All three pounded each others’ backs and gave grumbling, cursing acknowledgments. “I can finally fucking breathe, seeing you goddamn bastards.”

— Debra Anastasia

“I do not know who the two old men were or what any of them were doing, but there are moments when it is…

— Lord Dunsany

“I watched the kids walking past us on the sidewalk. They looked pretty much like any other kids. They were dressed for each other.…

— Robert B. Parker