Double meaning Quote by Joyce Maynard

“Why were we made just so, to find so many things that happened every day pretty?”

— George Saunders

“Was there only one world, after all, that spent its time dreaming of others?”

— Philip Pullman

“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

“People saw what they expected to see. It was one of the basic truisms of life.”

— Julia Quinn

“And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have…

— Joseph von Eichendorff

“The whole world seemed a maze of shifting mirrors in which I wandered alone, looking always and frenziedly for the exit back into my…

— Claire Messud

“The world was fucked up. It was hard to say how exactly, but we could feel it. There was injustice, lots of it, we…

— Michelle Tea

“There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect. A hundred million things had to happen,…

— Jim Butcher

“The world was almost too much.”

— Ellen Marie Wiseman

“the world as it was could never be more than a fraction of the world, for the real also consisted of what could have…

— Paul Auster

“But I wondered. Maybe the world wasn't made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people.…

— Clare Vanderpool

“All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest…

— Iain M. Banks