Old man Quote by Robin McKinley

“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

“But he could not tell what that significance was. It was like a message which it was very important for him to receive, but…

— William Somerset Maugham

“By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism,…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“HIs riders knew most of this, even if they did not see it with the dire clarity Corlath was forced to…”

— Robin McKinley

“He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew…

— Willa Cather

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only…

— Dean Koontz

“Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?”

— Charlotte Brontë

“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy…

— August Strindberg

“In his sight every thing was easy, logical, natural, and, consequently, he could see no use in complaining or grumbling.”

— Doma Publishing House

“He did not know what he sought or what his journeys would bring him; but he had a feeling that he would learn something…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed; in…

— Helen Keller