Backseat Quote by Richard Siken

“Breathlessly you reach the station just as the train is arriving! But alas, the train doesn't stop. It keeps going. It doesn't care how…

— Kate McGahan

“The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by…

— Kellie Elmore

“. . . in the distance I hear a train rushing over the rails, but we are moving away from this place and all…

— Veronica Roth

“I gingerly sit down next to him. He scoots closer until his hip touches mine. I scoot away from him, but he scoots even…

— Tammy Falkner

“empty, with the driver’s door wide open.”

— Chad Zunker

“ Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another…

— Bob Dylan

“But it's like no matter how much energy you pour into getting to the station on time, or getting on the right train, there's…

— Nancy Oliver

“...I know this world. I live in it too. There's no shelter or safety or escape from the cruel stares and comments, the too-small…

— Roxane Gay

“A bus came. I climbed aboard and sat on the plastic seat while the things of our city turned in the windows like the…

— Denis Johnson

“I look up, and I can’t keep from grinning at him. “You’re in my space,” I warn. “I like being in your space. I…

— Tammy Falkner

“So…make room on the crazy train for one more. When’s our departure?”

— M.A. George

“Life is a railroad station; soon I will set out - for where? I will not say.”

— Marina Tsvetaeva