Books Quote by Stewart O'Nan

“Mrs. Gamely had gotten a letter through, inviting them to visit as soon as they could, and reporting that, in these years just before…

— Mark Helprin

“There were letters for her at the bureau-one from her brother, full of athletics and biology; one from her mother, delightful as only mother's…

— E.M. Forster

“Ferret took out a folded scrap of paper and passed it to him. 'My guy Ben doesn't know where the other club is, but…

— R.D. Ronald

“The heat of the day had long since retreated into the desert, and the city, which had drowsed through the hot afternoon, was finally…

— Liz Braswell

“A no-name place, as far as I could see, but it had a miserable cafe-cum-garage-cum-funeral parlor shared by a gang of silent locals and…

— David Mitchell

“When I deeply see: • bedsheets painted with highlighter? … children live here! • dead rose left too long in vase? … lingering memories…

— Zondervan

“I pass by cottages with candles glowing in windows, rocking chairs on front porches where people sit with large books on their laps drinking…

— Shea Ernshaw

“Before I opened my computer in the parking lot today, I relived one of my favorite memories. It's the one with Woody and me…

— Diane Keaton

“I stepped from the air-conditioned compartment onto the station platform, and the motherly breath of the suburbs enfolded me. It smelt of lawn sprinklers…

— Sylvia Plath

“whatever reason, an evening nodding and unconscious in my bedroom at Hobie’s had begun to seem like a perfectly reasonable response to the holiday…

— Donna Tartt

“The dim, dusty room, with the busts staring down from the tall bookcases, the cozy chairs, the globes, and best of all, the wilderness…

— Louisa May Alcott

“In the Shreve High football stadium, I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville, And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace…

— James Wright