Bible Quote by Susanna Kaysen

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from…

— Hermann Hesse

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors…

— Ernst Toller

But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out…

— Donna Tartt

Growing up, a lot of people at church would talk about these experiences that they've had and these personal revelations and feelings and voices.…

— Benson Boone

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted…

— Alice Sebold

I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges…

— Irving Howe

I remember walking into the Bible study. I had a knot in my stomach. In my mind, only weirdoes and zealots went to Bible…

— Kirsten Powers

I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people…

— Joe Dunthorne

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful…

— John Green

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasnt the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful…

— John Green

Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what…

— Svetlana Alexievich