Life Quote by Émile Zola

“The woods, the vines, the very stones, were at one with the brightness of the sun and the unblemished sky, and even when the…

— Marcel Proust

“That night, before he tried to sleep, Louie prayed. He had prayed only once before in his life, in childhood, when his mother was…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“Taking a deep breath, George turned around taking in the unspectacular panorama. A tear moved slowly down his cheek. To George this was where…

— Emily Organ

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“And now he had acquired the wisdom to admit that sometimes experienced his disdain for “weak, sick people” because he was frightened by any…

— James C. Coyne

“I lived in an enclave in which our oldest had seen twenty-five years. His face was withered, and his fingers shook when he attempted…

— Ann Aguirre

“The years of his life had not been gentle, and there was something untamable about him; his eyes seemed to say everything and nothing…

— Chris Nicolaisen

“During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live…

— John Steinbeck

“It seemed to him that he had stepped through a high window that looked on a vanished world. A light was upon it for…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself. He thought…

— A.S. Byatt

“If a boy became sick he walked alone; the others were afraid to catch what he had, and did not want to know him…

— Dave Eggers

“For the first four years of my life, while he lived, I was not Ti Jean Duluoz, I was Gerard, the world was his…

— Jack Kerouac