Reality check Quote by Rebecca Bloom

“Though Jonah felt transfixed inside his own childhood, no one else saw him as a child. He was already over the hump of middle…

— Meg Wolitzer

“If the reader’s imagination is concerned with what happened next to Jonah rather than with the nature of the divine compassion, then the reader…

— R.W.L. Moberly

“Doctors described Jonah as having poor impulse control, which basically meant that Jonah's entire world was a series of decisions that balanced precariously on…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“The young man looked down from the cart at the people in front of him. Jonah felt his teacher’s eyes meet his own, and…

— Anna Myers

“As long as you are following God’s will, friend Kline. But even God sometimes becomes impatient. You know the story of Jonah, friend Kline?…

— Brian Evenson

“He was only for the joyous days, the days of courage, when she could share with him all the good things he brought with…

— Anaïs Nin

“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“It kept the loneliness of crushlessness from being entirely crushing.”

— John Green

“Everything became a metaphor, a talisman, a sign that I was still actually connected to people—that I wasn’t so completely on my own.”

— Susan Jane Gilman

“Like all solitary persons he had invested friendship with a divine glamour: he imagined that the people he passed on the street, laughing together…

— Thornton Wilder

“...in that look was such love and uncritical adoration as a god might instill into a new create. "Except, how boring at last," he…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“He looked at the people walking about and envied them because they had friends; sometimes his envy turned to hatred because they were happy…

— William Somerset Maugham