Dull Quote by Kim Edwards

Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage…

— Cormac McCarthy

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid…

— Walter Benjamin

“He knew that any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things. One could open a book…

— Paulo Coelho

Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all…

— Haruki Murakami

“Though it was dark, I could see how his eyes came alive with enthusiasm and the way he used his hands to illustrate with…

— Juliet Marillier

“Just why it should have happened, or why it should have happened just when it did, he could not, of course, possibly have said;…

— Conrad Aiken

The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where…

— Steven Galloway

“Beyond the Mountains of the Moon, around the curve of the earth, my shadow streched, and within me scratched and crawled small living things,…

— Cathrine Fisher

“He has had to learn to hide it, even more than most of us. Somewhere, I think, there is a center to him. It…

— Lauren Oliver

“A warm flow of pain was gradually replacing the ice and wood of the anaesthetic in his thawing, still half-dead, abominably martyred mouth. After…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“All at once he found his mind drawing a parallel between that destiny and his own existence; all at once questions of life arose…

— Ivan Goncharov

He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a…

— C. S. Lewis