Quote by Rick Riordan

“The Little Palace had become a very lonely place. I was surrounded by people, but I almost felt like they couldn't see me, only…

— Leigh Bardugo

“...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“that life was full of small comforts which were all the time making for happiness, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate them.”

— Katrina Avilla Munichiello

“They died comfortably in their little bed of understanding, to become useful citizens of the world. I pitied them, and in short order I…

— Henry Miller

“...there is a somewhere else after this, where everyone drinks elysia and lives forever.”

— Jessica Khoury

“...it occurred to me that perhaps in this city the crowd was essential to the individual; without it, he had nothing against which to…

— Don DeLillo

“Because she, too, was the Dark One, wasn't she? They all were, as much as they were all Forest Dwellers, without Elyon's cleansing waters.…

— Ted Dekker

“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace…

— Christopher Paolini

“Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for her. And as a…

— C. JoyBell C

“Easily found, easily gathered, lives were the small change of this world, and if you lost a few, it didn't matter; there were always…

— Salman Rushdie

“The room was large, and largely empty. The pace would pick up later in the evening. For now, the action comprised just a few…

— Barry Eisler

“He had decided that if he ever returned to his old job he would create a special level of hell, an enormous inescapable shop…

— Heide Goody