Life Quote by Scott Anderson

“Sitting in this small pub with its cool flagged floor, listening to the murmuring voices of the haymakers and the click of dominoes falling,…

— William Boyd

“i had spent four years propped on the front porch of the fraternity house, bemused and dreaming, watching the sun shine through the spanish…

— Walker Percy

“But the boy was quiet. He was at home with the silence of the desert, and he was content just to look at the…

— Paulo Coelho

“For the present he was outside the gates of everything, colleges included: perhaps some day he would be inside. Those palaces of light and…

— Thomas Hardy

“When he rose and turned to go back the tarp was lit from within where the boy had wakened. Sited there in the darkness…

— Cormac McCarthy

“One gave oneself time, one lost oneself, one followed the sun, one fell asleep so often on a bed of straw, and now, how…

— Claude Esteban

“The sky was murky and deep, like quicksand. There was a young man parcelled up in barbed wire, like a crown of thorns. I…

— Markus Zusak

“From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like…

— John Milton

“And I in a concrete room above the abandoned labyrinth of Palenque measuring my fate, wandering solitary in the wild --blinking singleminded at a…

— Allen Ginsberg

“If Nicholas Benedict truly had been able to see the future, his own would have startled him to sleep at once, for he would…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

“Now, an hour later, Ethan stood at a window, gazing at the rain, like threads of seed pearls, accessorizing the hills of Bel Air.…

— Dean Koontz

“Just a month from this day, on the twentieth of September, 1850, I shall be sitting in this chair, in this study, at ten…

— George Eliot