Brick wall Quote by Mary Hogan

“So much of who I was had become lost, diluted, fragmented. I was being pulled and stretched in every which way, dragged in a…

— Bianca Scardoni

“I who had loved the image of old Geulincx, dead young, who left me free, on the black boat of Ulysses, to crawl towards…

— Samuel Beckett

“...the human race, like drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“But this is the only account hand-copied and tacked to my bulletin board, the testimony of a Dutch pilot caught on shore near Anjer,…

— Jim Shepard

“His is one of those cases which are more numerous than those suppose who have never lived anywhere but in their own homes, and…

— John Cotton Dana

“mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves, severed mother…

— Salman Rushdie

“What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Sometimes, in the evenings, a damp, gritty wind blew in the windows from Park Avenue, just as the rush hour traffic was thinning and…

— Donna Tartt

“While you live, whatever your state while on earth, act the generous and manly part; and never, never , either manually or with the…

— T.J. Llewelyn Prichard

“A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds And when the weeds begin to grow It's like…

— Percy B. Green

“Words are the mirrors of our discontents merely; they contain all the huge unhatched eggs of the world's sorrows.”

— Lawrence Durrell

“Words, rolling on. Sometimes the Harbinger of Death hears these words, words of house prices and commutes and the price of pasta and the…

— Claire North