Strange world Quote by Phaedra Patrick

“He readied himself to let go, to plunge in, to begin the swim out into the farther cold, out into the terrible, terrible freedom…

— Patrick Ness

“He must have been very brave and very strong, at the end, not to do himself in.”

— Jon Krakauer

“I fumbled around in the basement of my soul in search of the small, sensible fellow who often comes to the rescue during emergencies.…

— Max Frei

“He was astonished at how calm he found he was. Fear of death had always energised him, making him move far more quickly than…

— K.J. Parker

“He experienced a familiar comfort being in the presence of another person's unknowable pain. More than any landscape, this place felt like home.”

— Adam Haslett

“As he left the hospital, he wasn’t scared. The only emotion he felt was loneliness. His alienation had been building up, but had been…

— Liu Cixin

“A strange stillness had settled over him, as well, a waiting. The earth was shifting beneath him, and he had the hideous suspicion that…

— Anne Stuart

“...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps we all…

— Pete Dexter

“I wanted to come, and if I hadn’t, they would have been all alone, and nobody would have ever known how frightened and brave…

— Connie Willis

“And I knew, as I had always known but somehow forgotten to remember in these past years, that I could never have done it,…

— Melanie Benjamin

“...that to me, was what courage was - moving forward and doing what you needed to do, despite how difficult or terrifying it may…

— August Westman

“The next day he did not leave the house, and, indeed, spent most of the time in his own room, sick with a wild…

— Oscar Wilde