Men and women Quote by Oscar Wilde

“His heart...responds to those once-upon-a-time people, anonymous in the shadows, the faith it took them to come together and rest and listen through the…

— Lauren Groff

“I remember our sorrows in shades, like the gray of the shadows, which loomed that day, and the white in his lie when he…

— Lang Leav

“He stood at the foot of the grave, gloved hands clasped behind him, his dark clothes and hair blending into one black silhouette, as…

— Amanda DeWees

“There was light and there was darkness, and where once, so recently, he had sat at his desk bathed in that light, now he…

— Shamim Sarif

“He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his…

— Elizabeth Spencer

“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden? He had…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He’d passed the longest night of his life locked in mortal combat with his ghosts, calling up and then disavowing twenty years of memories.…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl…

— James Joyce

“But his eyes caught me. There was something I recognized in them—a sorrow or a longing that was both gripping and haunting. I saw…

— Laurelin Paige

“They saw him as he was, a full man whose griefs and solaces and talents ran together.”

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

“The place had filled him with a sense of wisdom hovering just out of reach, of unspeakable grace prepared and waiting just around the…

— Richard Yates