Old man Quote by John Steinbeck

“A woman gasped. Through the open door I could see a sliver of carolers, some faces peering inside at the scattered tatters of money,…

— Scott Heim

“Before I took to the road, a friend tried to get me to go to a department store with him. He said it was…

— Amy Hempel

“Janie stood where he left her for unmeasured time and thought. She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“But mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods—come and gone with the…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Tommy had completely forgotten that he was horny. He had always been horny, and had accepted that he always would be horny. So when…

— Christopher Moore

“Jody had watched other classmates, including many in college prep, enter such a life with an impatient fatalism. They got pregnant or arrested or…

— Ron Rash

“Billy took off his tri-focals and his coat and his necktie and his shoes, and he closed the venetian blinds and then the drapes,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I truly meant to only find you and bring you back to the landing, sweet, but when I saw you here alone, I could…

— Karen Harper

“So I often saw my father writing under the lamp, scratching his head to find something to write about, even telling her that the…

— Richard Llewellyn

“He went to stand next to the bed and even though the room was unlit, he could make out, faintly, her slight form beneath…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“Succumbing finally, she lets out a loud shriek as her vehicle stops at a red light. “Fuck.” She hollers cursing the night. Cursing the…

— M.R. Gott