Building Quote by Nell Freudenberger

“It seemed incredible that it could be the same road, the same asphalt, that they had traveled so many times together. You thought that…

— Nell Freudenberger

The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block,…

— Penelope Lively

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason,…

— Ron Perlman

I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time…

— Charles Simic

I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted…

— Zhang Xiaogang

So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which…

— Virginia Woolf

You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you wont take another step until you find out…

— Nate

“[Think] of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really…

— Steve Grand

I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but…

— Haruki Murakami

You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won't take another step until you find out…

— Anonymous

I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest,…

— Emily M. Danforth

We all, as human beings, have different layers, and if we become one-dimensional or really superficial, then I still think there are things that…

— Kalup Linzy