Beaten path Quote by Kristen Ashley

“I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here,…

— Ellen Hopkins

“There was a coldness and loneliness in the world, and I felt that I had lost something without getting anything in return...”

— Bram Stoker

“I am not cold. I wasn’t ever cold. My warmth was hidden far away from anything that could bring hurt because I knew I…

— Roxane Gay

“It transports me away to a place that's almost perfect. To a place where everything is good and nothing ever goes wrong and there's…

— Kim Holden

“I left the apartment without even bothering to close the door behind me. Once outside, I faced a world of buildings and faces that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“So I forced myself to step out of my comfort zone and go out and connect with people. I realised that no one knew…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I was feeling unfulfilled and, frankly, rather crappy about everything. I wasn't going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were…

— Charles Bukowski

“Life can't touch me here. In this frozen plain. Where feelings were nonexistent. I wonder if my chest was cold to the touch. It…

— Roxanne Greening

“The place where you came from ain't there any more, and where you had in mind to go is cancelled out. This place you…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“I was moving and breathing but everything else had become so slow. I felt that I was trapped inside a still landscape, one of…

— Tracy Emin

“I needed to go so he could bring me back. Show me my place in life. In this big, bad world. And once he…

— Jay Crownover

“It was easier with Mother--always had been--less complicated, less treacherous. I didn't have to be on my guard so much. I didn't have to…

— Khaled Hosseini And The Mountains Echoed