Quote by Lionel Shriver

“I liked the exoticism his travels gave him, the unknownness. He had blown in with the soft breezes of a wider world, and it…

— jojo moyes

“I might be a beast astray, with no sense of its environment, yet there was some meaning in my foolish life, something in me…

— hermann hesse

“The fantasy of living these experiences was one thing, but having the self-confidence to head out into the world and chase them, to take…

— Jeff Johns

“It was the silly little things that seemed so unimportant at the time that could end up meaning the most after, the things that…

— Kirsty Moseley

“as soon as I seized upon the otherworldly, it joined this world and didn’t count.”

— Lionel Shriver

“When I thought of myself, of the feelings I had, of the things I thought I understood so well, I imagined myself somehow abstractly,…

— Gaito Gazdanov

“... he felt unusually warm toward humankind. He even thought that it could warm to him. Everyone, all of us, individually facing oblivion as…

— Ian McEwan

“I had the most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact had an order, oblique as…

— Nicole Krauss

“Anything exceptional gets crushed by common people with jealousy and ignorance and all their common evils.”

— Corey Taylor

“until I accept the world for exactly what it is: unfair, mean, graceful, luscious, and magically illogical.”

— BK Loren

“Both their attention and their neglect were equally intolerable. His world had become complicated and interesting and magical. Theirs was mundane and domestic. They…

— Lev Grossman

“For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world…

— Mary Shelley