Quote by Jonathan Stroud

“...I meditated on the passage of time, and how it may be found in both a dry and a wet or gaseous state; how,…

— M.T. Anderson

“It was always the meaningless tasks that endure: the washing, the cooing, the clearing, the cleaning. Never anything majestic or significant, just the tiny…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“He was grateful, then, for his friends, and for how relatively little they had mined from him, how they had left him to himself,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“They were caring and tender and, although neither quite knew what caring and tenderness were, they succeeded because they very much wanted to. And…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“Whilst I was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side,…

— Anna Sewell

“There was light, warmth, and love under that tiny shelter. It was small but just enough to get through difficult times. ‘Sense of Home”

— NZ Kaminsky

“He raged at his farm, forced it, added to it, drilled and trimmed, and his boundaries extended. He took no rest, no recreation, and…

— John Steinbeck

“…the facts of history all appeared to me like specimens in a herbarium, permanently dried, so that it was easy to forget they had…

— André Gide

“I forgot that with the green, the plushness, and shiny plant life that pushed up and surrounded us, with the nourishment it provided came—the…

— Lauren Nicolle Taylor

“When it comes to age, it’s all about the quality of the preservation,”

— Donna McDonald

“The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now…

— Virginia Woolf

“He looked at his dry old hand and it seemed to him that in this atmosphere, he had himself become more reptilian than human.…

— Cordwainer Smith