Literary fiction Quote by Rebecca Berto

“So much of who I was had become lost, diluted, fragmented. I was being pulled and stretched in every which way, dragged in a…

— Bianca Scardoni

“I saw the void beneath the surface of the world; it threatened to pull me under.”

— Rachel Hartman

“I really am who I seem to be, and I’m coming apart at the seams.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The world had come to my aid and shown me that I could be so much more if I let my guard down and…

— Kim Dinan

“You disintegrated into the recriminations, the headlines, the pictures. You scattered yourself into proofs, warnings, suspicions, arrests. You rode out into the dark outrage…

— Jonathan Lee

“I felt myself increasingly unmoored from real life. it was as if the children were ropes tying me to the World. Without them, I…

— Tamar Cohen

“Clawing its way towards us, the ugliness of the world tore away our hiding-place.”

— Amin Maalouf

“Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every world you say.”

— David Levithan

“I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me…

— Franz Kafka

“There's something almost weightless about our world, I think, something fleeting and insubstantial that's ill at ease with any pretence of certainty.”

— Deirdre Madden

“I just hope that one day, in one gloriously farcical moment I will be taken completely by surprise. I hope that I trip and…

— Kendal Rob

“Everything in this world exists to wear you down.”

— Tite Kubo