Center of attention Quote by Robert Carter

“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so…

— Joseph Heller

“He needed to find that hard place inside that would center him like the middle of a compass. Throughout his life, the needle would…

— Naomi Hirahara

“He had worlds in his eyes; they were magnetic. He was a force of gravity, and his presence, even in this blackest moment, could…

— Meredith Duran

“He felt like a compass needle. The needle knows nothing about magnetic north; it only knows it must point in a certain direction, like…

— Stephen King

“His nearness made my senses spin”

— Julie Kagawa

“The place had filled him with a sense of wisdom hovering just out of reach, of unspeakable grace prepared and waiting just around the…

— Richard Yates

“A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he…

— John Williams

“He has the look of a mighty mind, whose thoughts spin hidden beneath the impassive surface.”

— Rae Carson

“Surprisingly he wasn't overwhelmed... He wasn't part of this strange world. He as a visitor, transient, and knew he could return to the safety…

— Phaedra Patrick

“He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The…

— Lois Lowry

“his fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing. So high and so conceited that there was no…

— Jane Austen

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman