Failure Quote by Maria Semple

“was going to pay the price. He was going to die. Then his fingers finally found the valve. At first it wouldn’t turn, and…

— Stephen King

“Ollie hadn’t been kidding. He really did like jigsaw puzzles. A countryside harvest festival was spread across the coffee table, and its repeating autumnal…

— Stephanie Perkins

“That was the one moment he would always remember. The unhappiest moment of a happy childhood. The empty desolation of being on the wrong…

— Jim Kelly

“The memory of tonight was as unblemished as new-fallen snow that I had to protect from careless footsteps.”

— Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

“Michael tousled my hair and said, "Remember, no more skateboards, right?" And then this gem: "If you ever break your arm skateboarding again..." He…

— Alison Arngrim

“It rained; then it snowed, and the snow stayed on the paved ground for long enough to become evenly blacked with soot and smoke-fall,…

— William Gaddis

“WE stowed the wheels, uncapped the sledge-runners, put on our sis, and took off -- down, north, onward, into that silent vastness of fire…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Tears streamed down my face. I was so happy I wanted to shout it from the rooftop. But at the same time I knew…

— Alan Partridge

“Snowflakes faded as suddenly as they’d begun, and we all stopped, transfixed. A beam of sunlight broke through the canopy, turning the forest into…

— Beth Moran

“It was mundane. Pedestrian. But there was something beautiful about that mud-encrusted snow. How many people had passed through on their commutes to work,…

— Nikki Elizabeth

“He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossed away from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue and tendons…

— Jeffry R. Halverson

“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ...We tell…

— Gail Caldwell