Quote by Lionel Shriver

“For a long time I kept the piece of paper that tallied up everything that had been in the shopping cart the day I…

— Sophia Amoruso

“Franklin, I was absolutely terrified of having a child. Before I got pregnant, my visions of child rearing--reading stories about cabooses with smiley faces…

— Lionel Shriver

“These valuable thing produced in us a feeling of intimidation. We knew that no matter how far we got in life, we would never…

— Nicole Krauss

“It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belonged to me in these earlier…

— Hermann Hesse

“It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next…

— Jennifer Egan

“Anyway, it struck me now in a different light, as being yet another bit of personal meaning which had ben taken from me, stripped…

— Jonathan Lethem

“...do me the very great honor of becoming...the person who'll cook me lovely things to eat, who'll cheer me up when I'm miserable, who'll…

— Barbara Elsborg

“Today, my life changed and that’s all because of you. Today, I received the most precious thing imaginable and again...that’s all because of you.…

— K.M. Golland

“Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and…

— Sarah Dessen

“You are worth every heartache I've endured, every sleepless night, every red-rimmed eye. I am fragmented with you and without. I cannot decipher much…

— Wennie Hong

“Let’s make lists of all the things that make us smile and tick them off, one at a time. The world will carry on…

— pleasefindthis

“Well, my friends give me purple flowers and orange tea and goosedown spinning quilts and torquoise chairs we greet one another in a wild…

— Dar Williams