Quote by Peter Ackroyd

“Perhaps now, though, he had hit bottom. One thing about the bottom, he told himself, you can't fall any further. He tried to take…

— James Baldwin

“For he was not strong enough to receive the impact of unfamiliar things without a little talk to break their fall.”

— Eudora Welty

“He wasn't sure what he was saying, either, but he felt as if he were slipping into some dangerous world - one where answers…

— Courtney Milan

“His body had taken over, and he'd fought, and he'd even, in a small, strange, hidden way, enjoyed it.”

— Cassandra Clare

“…but then came another blow and something in him disconnected, like he’d been detached from a rock and was falling through an open pit,…

— Yuri Herrera

“It wasn't enough. He ached inside. But there was a line he wasn't allowed to cross, and he was never sure where it started.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“When he spoke, there was an odd vulnerability to his deep voice. As if he were letting her peek inside one of the dark…

— Lara Adrian

“...he wound up misbehaving in a manner so bold and outlandishly inappropriate that it wasn't clear to him if he had lost his mind…

— Paul Auster

“Not to fall was too hard, too hard; and he felt the silent lapse of his soul, as it would be at some instant…

— James Joyce

“He could not bear the thought of discussing his situation, he could endure it only by determining resolutely not to think about it. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Once I'd fallen into his shadow, I couldn't find my way out, and eventually I stopped trying and decided to embrace being the difficult…

— Tamsyn Murray

“He talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor of his sadness.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer