Fiction Quote by Nancy B. Brewer

“I left the apartment without even bothering to close the door behind me. Once outside, I faced a world of buildings and faces that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“This time, I heard a loud voice, literally heralding the reality that my daughter was never coming back. This time the depression had no…

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Loneliness swept over me, and I became aware of the vast uninhabited spaces.”

— Claire Fejes

“the room had grown smothery. He wanted to be out in some cool and bitter breeze, miles above the cities, and to live serene…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“for years, maybe for my whole life, it felt as though there was a brick wall down the middle of everything. Standing outside those…

— Liz Murray

“How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.”

— Manal al-Sharif

“I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Have you ever felt safe in a city without walls?”

— Katharine Towers

“And as the wind gusted against those windows, I saw how, in an instant, I lost my shelter. This truth had hardly escaped me…

— Sonali Deraniyagala

“I was moving and breathing but everything else had become so slow. I felt that I was trapped inside a still landscape, one of…

— Tracy Emin

“His walls were gone. Left somewhere back at the airport where he’d had to tear through them to chase me down. Because that’s what…

— Fae Quin

“Now that they had a secure hiding place almost a home it did not even seem a hardship that they could only meet infrequently…

— Orwell, George