Outset Quote by John Barth

“I could tell something was wrong (everything was definitely wrong there, I mean something wrong in the already wrong thing).”

— Suren Fant

“The trouble is, you think something is everything and fail to realize that everything is something.”

— Kate McGahan

“Today it strikes me that the most important aspect of these conversations was not so much what we said as what we took for…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“We began in error, so obviously the ensuing events left us in error, too.”

— Wataru Watari

“After all that had happened, that it all came down to what was written and what had been said.”

— Jodi Picoult

“A bad beginning makes a bad ending.”

— Euripides

“I still couldn’t pinpoint exactly when it all started to go wrong.”

— Vallere, Diane

“I said all the wrong things. Except when I was busy saying all the mean ones and in the end I hated everybody and…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Or rather, it’s a bunch of what happened that ends up being about nothing at all.”

— Cheryl Strayed

“I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Everything has to do with everything else—you know that by now. So begin at the beginning, and it will lead to the end.”

— Toby Neal

“There was everything before in the beginning.”

— Toba Beta