Civil war Quote by Kevin Wallis

“Nicholas lay with his hands on his chest, thinking how hollow it felt, like an empty gourd. He had never missed having a family,…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

“Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life, he was…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He climbed through the vast stillness, alone...and yet somehow, he knew, no longer alone. For now his two fathers climbed with him.”

— James Ramsey Ullman

“What went on in that head of his? I would soon come to understand that he gave voice to only a fraction of the…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.”

— Richard Ford

“Now he felt the despair his father had felt as the familiar world slipped from around him, the valleys gashed and ugly, the woods…

— Rohinton Mistry

“How he led is no mystery. His techniques were time-honored. He knew his men. He saw to it that they had dry socks, enough…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“father had obviously been feeling particularly unsympathetic toward his wayward”

— Leigh Michaels

“But I couldn't get the image out of my head of the beast strapped to the table, Father humming while the candle wax slowly…

— Megan Shepherd

“It was, come to think of it, a little like a kinder, gentler Psycho-Dad making one of his command decisions. Exactly the same, only…

— Ilsa J. Bick

“Everything he did, as long as you stayed in the village, whether shouting obscenities at passing children or sleeping in the cemetery, all would…

— Nick Flynn