Connoisseur Quote by Lisa Lutz

“None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he’d managed to live forty-two…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Suddenly the memory of his wife came back to him and, no doubt feeling it would be too complicated to try to understand how…

— Marcel Proust

“he was... one of those men who like to witness their own life, considering any ambition to live it inappropriate. ...he didn´t believe, ever,…

— baricco alessandro

“After losing four of his children and his wife to cholera five years ago, Shin found that he could not speak much about loss.…

— Min Jin Lee

From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on…

— Ray Bradbury

“Trent was positively smug. Showing me his back, he rifled through a rack of earth charms and watched his hair shift color. “And whereas…

— Kim Harrison

“His father in law, who was as old as the century, had just retired and was living in a country house in Gelderland. He…

— Harry Mulisch

He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even his longing…

— Jonathan Franzen

“In so many ways he’d lived like he would live forever. He’d taken his time for granted on one hand and simultaneously not fully…

— Tim McBain

She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“None of it mattered. He would just keep living. They'd taken his freedom, his family, his friends, and— most dear of all— his dreams. They could…

— Brandon Sanderson