Bouncing Quote by John Berryman

“What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,...I am not a little boy.”

— John Berryman

“Suddenly, I found myself running along the rooftop, leaping and falling. Falling until I caught the zip-line handle and then I was zooming, flying…

— Maya Bode

“He stood well back from the ball, and with a dashing, pressing, forceful style of driving, which seldom failed, sent it whizzing on its…

— Kevin Cook

“Once again, there was talk of winning every game, and once again, we proved to be human, because an oblong ball takes funny bounces.”

— Michael Pinball Clemons

“I walked until the water lapped against my chest, and then I kept walking until it kissed the underside of my jaw. I was…

— Rick Yancey

“He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.”

— Douglas Adams

“Wonderboy flashed in the sun. It caught the sphere it was biggest. A noise like a twenty-one gun salute cracked the sky. There was…

— Bernard Malamud

“One small boy jumps over a table, pulls his jumper and shirt up, and turns his back to us to show where shrapnel wounded…

— Richard Flanagan

“We need a Drop the Ball movement—”

— Tiffany Dufu

“Shh, it’s like watching a baby turtle trying to find the ocean. He’s either going to get eaten because he knows shit about sports,…

— Rachel Van Dyken

“The story was clearly over, as in juggling when the ball you throw up finds the moment to come down, hesitates as if it…

— E.L. Doctorow

“I remember watching those balloons as a little boy, each fall, wondering if someday I, too, would be nothing but a balloon in the…

— Kenny Porpora