Quote by Tahereh Mafi

“Maybe you've tumbled a world for me. And I don't know what I can build in my world's place.”

— John Steinbeck

“And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have…

— Joseph von Eichendorff

“I don't know who I am anymore." I expected the world to crack open and the sky to fall once I said it. Nothing…

— Lili St. Crow

“I opened a wound in the earth to tuck you away and as the soil filled around you covering the last of my dreams…

— Tyler Kent White

“The world snapped open. The world snapped shut.”

— Dawn Metcalf

“The world won't come to me...so I must go to it.”

— Donna Tartt

“And that was the thing: you couldn't just stand there gawking at the world. A car slipped by. Then another. It was as if…

— Liz Rosenberg

“I felt trapped in my own body, once again in a labyrinth that I didn’t know the way out of. But that labyrinth was…

— Ali Blythe

“I feel like the Earth has cracked open and swallowed me into a bottomless abyss.”

— March Lions

“I'm so tired. Once, I wanted to watch the floods coming into a canyon, to stand on the edge and see it happen, on…

— Ally Condie

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler

“My screams were loud enough to reach the corners of the earth.”

— Courtney Cole