Books Quote by Richard Denney

“I sprinted down the alley, not fast enough to avoid the cold water rolling down my back, with a childlike shriek. I caught his…

— Veronica Roth

“One time, your heart almost slipped away on a river barge. Your hands seemed to claw the sky. I’m sorry. No one else made…

— Richard Jackson

“The ground is wet. It occurs to me that my sneakers, meticulously washed two days before, will soon be covered in mud again, however…

— Pablo Coelho

“You are going through mud but your feet are still clean.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“I hurried off, clacking my heels on the pavement, so I could hear that I had returned to my ordinary everyday life.”

— Teffi

“Sure, I have nice shoes. They’re in my closet, collecting a patina of dust. My shoes were made for dancing, and that’s why they’re…

— Jarod Kintz

“And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Drifting on the black, rippling surface were fingers. Thumbs. Dozens of them. Hundreds, floating like dead fish in a dynamited pond. I saw part…

— Glen Hirshberg

“Mud covered me from face to feet. I couldn’t straighten my body, however much I tried to. But I was alive. I was alive…

— Pedro De Alcantara

“My shoes are scuffed and dirty from dancing. The grave of my enemy is where I go to find my inner Astaire.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The landings were dirty and the walls were bare. This stairway brought me into the balcony, and I sat there in the dark, thinking…

— John Cheever

“Turning on my heel, I ran back down the corridor as fast as my jellied legs would carry me. My breath came in heaving…

— Bella Forrest