Boards Quote by Louise Bernikow

Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object…

— Iris Murdoch

“It is said in those districts that not all the trains which run on the city’s tracks are listed in Metropolitan Transit’s compendious schedule.…

— Sarah Monette

If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a…

— Seamus Heaney

You might think of a haunting as a loop of video or audio tape playing itself over and over for you to watch. Trying…

— Loyd Auerbach

“A train full of shadows. Of living ghosts. On a journey to nowhere.”

— John Larkin

“We instinctively wave to people on trains because trains are a metaphor for being alive: countless souls, trapped together, hurtling across the landscape, with…

— Douglas Coupland

“That night, they spoke in hushed voices around the fire, almost expecting to see or hear something jump from the shadows. Gonjo had been…

— Manish Mahajan

“The onlookers go rigid when the train goes past.”

— Franz Kafka

“It's a little like being alone on a moving train for the first time. The excitement and wonder at the new experience slowly gives…

— Amy A. Bartol

“Tram is the literary and magical version of the train!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“all this important stuff has *no one in charge of it.* Some people claim to be, but they're in charge of one tiny piece…

— Cory Doctorow

“Towed behind the locomotive is a row of boxcars that contains everything meaningful, and most times traumatic, that has happened to me. It’s a…

— R. O. Barton