Quote by Olivia Laing Download Open image ““Had trouble again with twine. Mad enough to wish I was a bad tornado. Swore at God.’ 18”” — Olivia Laing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I am my own tornado. Instead of panicking, I run in circles and scream.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“He shook his head. "You didn't do anything. It'd be like blaming a tornado for ripping through a trailer park. The tornado's just minding… — Kathleen Peacock Copy Share Image
“Tornado or no tornado, a girl from Kansas doesn't let much get to her.” — Danielle Paige Copy Share Image
“blown into my life like a hurricane, turned me upside down, challenged me at every turn. And, together, we sparked like lightning.” — Kim Harrington Copy Share Image
“These things—I call them my “tornado explosions”— are pieces of me. All the stuff that does not work gets balled up and hyped up.… — Atheneum Books for Young Readers Copy Share Image
“Tornadoes were, in out part of Central Illinois, the dimensionless point at which parallel lines met and whirled and blew up. They made no… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The look on his face wasn't just a dark storm, it was the full force of a tornado or a tsunami.” — Emme Rollins Copy Share Image
“Jelousy is like a terrifying tornado seeking to destroy anything in its path” — Leonard Fowler Copy Share Image
“My life is a puff of smoke in a tornado. We are all furiously whirling into nothingness.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“We packed up some tarps and followed the man to a town called Pleasant Grove. I have cousins who live there, but I hadn’t… — Noah Galloway Copy Share Image
“Not so long ago, I spent a period in New York City, that teeming island of gneiss and concrete and glass, inhabiting loneliness on… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“There is no possibility of permanent tenancy on this circling planet. It isn’t part of the deal.” — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“they’d even met, he recommended him to his own editor at Scribner, Max Perkins, suggesting Max sign up this promising young” — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“The revelation of loneliness, the omnipresent, unanswerable feeling that I was in a state of lack, that I didn't have what people were supposed… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“The city reveals itself as a set of cells, a hundred thousand windows, some darkened and some flooded with green or white or golden… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“But already this isn't quite right. The first apartment I had wasn't on the island at all. It was in Brooklyn Heights, a few… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a very special place. It isn’t always easy to see the truth of Wilson’s statement, but over the course of my travels… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“When he changed his mind, very suddenly, expressing increasingly grave reservations into a series of hotel phones, I found myself adrift, stunned by the… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, all you need is permission to feel. Sometimes, what causes the most pain is actually the attempt to resist feeling, or the shame… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“Physically, Echo Spring is nothing more than a nickname for a liquor cabinet, drawn from the brand of bourbon it contains.” — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“As long as Frank was well, I was happy,’ he wrote in Memoirs. ‘He had a gift for creating a life and, when he… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
