Life Quote by John Barnes

“The evenings were the worst. I stood at the window of my hotel room and looked at the traffic and the thousands of little…

— Herman Koch

“There's a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true but you haven't told anyone yet. Of all things,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I sprinted down the alley, not fast enough to avoid the cold water rolling down my back, with a childlike shriek. I caught his…

— Veronica Roth

“For the next thirteen-plus hours, I stared out the window at the passing towns and countryside. All those lives. All those untold stories and…

— Kate Klise

“Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so on. They…

— George Saunders

“Children were very cruel and made fun of me. I could tell you many stories of times I was treated badly, and although the…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“Not only was there no traffic but the rain came down in buckets and I had no shelter. I had to run under some…

— Jack Kerouac

“So I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible…

— Samuel Beckett

“All oblivious to my dreams, and to my state of struggle: some would greet me, smiling at me. But some laughed the hardest, laughing…

— Mitta Xinindlu

“He avoided small talk at the best of times, and this, unquestionably, was a million horrific miles from the best of times.”

— Jane Harper

“If there's one thing I was horrible at, it was small talk.”

— S.H. Kolee

“I can't describe anything that happened during those days. It hurt, all the time, in a way language could not touch. It was boring.…

— John Green