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“I felt like the ocean. I felt like my insides were spread out so far and wide and there were so many things inside…

— Anna Akana

“Asking why had somehow led me to the thing that I loved—the feeling of moving over the earth, with the earth, the sensation of…

— Scott Jurek

“It was one of the most sublimely exhilarating moments of my life. I was half a step in front of the real, an inch…

— Paul Auster

“The ocean pulsed outside our window. The sound of the waves crashing on the rocks below usually calmed me down, but the fear and…

— Chelsie Shakespeare

“It was the silly little things that seemed so unimportant at the time that could end up meaning the most after, the things that…

— Kirsty Moseley

“I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside.”

— Vanora Bennett

“And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I…

— Milan Kundera

“It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belonged to me in these earlier…

— Hermann Hesse

“The feeling that the world was at my feet and the feeling that I alone was cut off from the world, the sense of…

— Ryū Murakami

“As it was, nothing happened except the two of us watching the sea come in and go out again, listening to the birds, sheltering…

— Meg Rosoff

“It struck me as odd that it had taken me so long to reach a feeling of sureness that there was something in me…

— Marion Milner

“And maybe I was coping awfully well, I don’t know. Certainly I wasn’t howling aloud or punching my fist through windows or doing any…

— Donna Tartt