Change Quote by Paul Auster

“Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.”

— Mark Twain

“More often than not, these attempts at sociability ended in painful silence. His old friends, who remembered him as a brilliant student and wickedly…

— Paul Auster

“When she spoke, Tom held his breath, so eagerly he listened; when she sang, he sat like one entranced. She touched his organ, and…

— Charles Dickens

“That was all he had ever aspired to, with a wife thrown into the bargain, maybe, and a kid or two to go along…

— Paul Auster

“If he walked, he discovered, he did not have to think, and that was just the way he liked it; when he thought, his…

— Neil Gaiman

“As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was too small a step, somehow, too puny a thing to settle for after having lost so much. So the courtship continued, and…

— Paul Auster

“He collected the stories of people like himself, mostly keeping silent and listening. He slowly discovered that the stories were similar, that there was…

— Paolo Giordano

“Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?”

— Karen Witemeyer

“A break from the task in hand and a cleared mind usually made him think better.”

— Mark Ellis

“Every time Tom was tempted to turn back, he made himself think of his brother. Joe, who he sometimes thought had been sent to…

— S.J. Bolton

“I wasn't thinking of Tom but of myself. And of a self who seemed to be mot 'me' but 'she.' An innocent, moving fecklessly…

— Penelope Lively