Character-harrier Quote by Mercedes Lackey

“But it was a rich, picture-perfect, it-can't-happen-here kind of suburb where people had gone, not to deal with life's problems, but to avoid them.”

— Richard Peck

“But a small part of him also knew that the reason he'd never ventured anywhere was because of the worry that the reality of…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“Afterward he remembered only the feeling that he was about to leave somewhere small and rational - a place that made sense - for…

— Neil Gaiman

“I wasn't afraid to make a place for myself in this world, even when conditions weren't ideal.”

— Kimberly Newton Fusco

“He'd been a fool, he saw that now. How could he have thought, even for a minute, that they'd be safe out here in…

— T.C. Boyle

“He liked being in a place where everything from forgetfulness to homicide might be blamed on the heat.”

— Jan Karon

“But every town had been promising. Every place at first had said, Here you go- You can live here. You can rest here. You…

— Elizabeth Strout

“I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had cared enough, that you'd made a…

— Gwenda Bond

“He didn’t know how one’s flesh prickled when fear took hold. He didn’t understand what it was like to gaze into the future and…

— Lorraine Heath

“It all made me realize I wasn't the only one who wasn't sure they belonged. There was no one right way to fit in--it…

— Marissa Moss

“Maybe that's the problem with being someplace beautiful: it makes it impossible to live anywhere else that's not.”

— Brock Clarke

“He was just one of those people ... one of a thousand expats who'd dragged their unhappiness to the other side of the world,…

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood