Ease Quote by John Lanchester

“Shut up, you fat water buffalo, rolling in the mud of other people's lives, is what she wanted to say. But she bit her…

— Amy Waldman

“In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people actually had…

— Alice Hoffman

“Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if…

— Jim Harrison

“All at once the world seemed very thin to her, more an idea than an actual thing, and barely there at all. She had…

— Stephen King

“She's studying the Existentialists this month. Asked for a study day last week to kill an Arab on the beach.”

— Christopher Moore

“Life is not always easy, but it can be ecstatic.”

— Roger Walsh

“I traveled in her orbit only for a while, but it was an exciting while and one during which it seemed that the joys…

— Randy L. Schmidt

“She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“But, as her mother had often told her, life wasn't meant to be easy. It was meant to be lived.”

— Susan Mallery

“Julia taught me what it takes to find your way in the world. It's not what I thought it was. I thought it wa…

— Julie Powell

“She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“People made her tired. The way they were easy with one another, the way they seemed so natural, only made her sad.”

— Ann Patchett