Peace Quote by Robert Lowell

“No one showed him how to live in his clothes, how and elbow needs to worry its way through a sweater like the nub…

— Julie Bruck

“The Frenchman beside me had been dead since dawn. His scarred and shackled body swayed limply back and forth with every sweep of the…

— Jeffery Farnol

“They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was.…

— Toni Morrison

“An English man-at-arms had his helmet split open and his skull with it, so that he rode wavering from the fight, blood pouring down…

— Bernard Cornwell

“My head was emptying and emptying, and in the end it sat light and void on my shoulders. I percieved this gaping emptiness in…

— Knut Hamsun

“But he was exhausted, too, and not even feeling as if he were alive. Inside him, it felt as if something brilliant, some fire,…

— Douglas Clegg

“I sagged to my knees as the adrenaline wore off and my muscles started to shake, leaving me weak and nearly hyperventilating. I could…

— Julie Kagawa

“I felt myself increasingly unmoored from real life. it was as if the children were ropes tying me to the World. Without them, I…

— Tamar Cohen

“I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out of my…

— Jonathan Tropper

“[He] Spoke and rose to full height, sword in air, Then cleft the man's brow square between the temples Cutting his head in two…

— Virgil

“am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world. The tiny elf dancer became a wooden doll whose strings…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“There was already something dead about him. He didn’t rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked.…

— Zora Neale Hurston