Chief-bromden Quote by Ken Kesey

“Whenever I got home late, I'd always go to my son's room first, to see his sleeping face. Sometimes I was seized by a…

— Haruki Murakami

“No, I can't stop for sonnets; my mother is sitting up. I'll look you up tomorrow, sometime or other, and do for goodness' sake…

— Kenneth Grahame

“If I'm working this hard in the morning, I'd prefer it be because my man has woken me up with an eight-inch nudge.”

— Erin McCarthy

“My nights are flatulent and unquiet.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Sonnets to write before I sleep.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Hey, it's ten in the morning!' says Person, yelling at two farmers dressed in robes in the distance. 'Don't you think you ought to…

— Evan Wright

“He lifts her white cotton skirt, revealing another hour. His hand. His hands. The syllables inside them. O father, O foreshadow, press into her — as…

— Ocean Vuong

“Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were gone. That I'd wear my…

— Suzanne Palmieri

“Sometimes during the night I'd look at my poor sleeping mother cruelly crucified there in the American night because of no-money, no-hope-of-money, no family,…

— Jack Kerouac

“In these evenings he sat by our beds weaving folktales like vivid little scarves.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“Do you imagine that the poisonous spittle of five hundred little men of your sort, hoisted on to each other's shoulders, could even drool…

— Marcel Proust

“When I grow up I mean to be A Lion large and fierce to see. I'll mew so loud that Cook in fright Will…

— Oliver Herford