Cleaning Quote by Stephen Chbosky

“These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up…

— T.C. Boyle

“He couldn’t understand how I could be so bright in my other classes and a total failure in his. I must not be trying…

— Thom Satterlee

“I bored myself to tears with the daytime television drama of confrontation (I've been wronged!). I winced at sluggish morning half-memories of wearing wrongness…

— Merri Lisa Johnson

Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot of heroin…

— Sam Hamill

“Exhaling heavily, I sank back down into the sofa and picked up the book again. When I'd read the same sentence five times, I…

— Josie Jaffrey

“To her complete bafflement, instead of continuing his attack, Ian Thornton turned around and met her stormy eyes, an odd expression on his handsome…

— Judith McNaught

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“Now, where were we when our conversation had to be abandoned downstairs?” he said when Ian handed the papers back to him. Ian’s thoughts…

— Judith McNaught

“Entering by the carré, a piece of mirror- glass, set in an oaken cabinet, repeated my image. It said I was changed: my cheeks…

— Charlotte Brontë

He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a…

— Neil Gaiman

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

“Don’t satisfy your thirst by drinking stories from others. Write your own story to feel more thirst.”

— Debasish Mridha