Quote by Tahereh Mafi

“He’s nothing but a deformed emanation of energy.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“It is possible that his virtue lived on a lack of energy.”

— John Steinbeck

“If anything, the spirit that drove him now was fiercer, but there was no denying the diminishing powers of his body. He”

— Donna Leon

“He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely…

— Patrick Süskind

“I have been advised to try to find one redeeming quality in him to focus on. So far, the only thing I can think…

— Kristin Walker

“Hardly out of mortal danger and already he gets impertinent.”

— Angelika Rust

“I was in error when I saw him as fixed and stable and thought I would have him forever. He was never fixed, nor…

— George Saunders

“He is full of adrenaline, his nerves are shot, and his mind is cluttered up with free-floating anxiety-floating around on an ocean of generalized…

— Neal Stephenson

“He was up to his neck in it. He was breathing the air of its world, adapting to its gravity. The story's essence had…

— Haruki Murakami

“My eyes moved over his face. His chiseled jaw and high cheekbones twisted in agony. Even writhing he was beautiful, muscles clenching and unclenching,…

— Andrea Cremer

“What little strength he had left flowed out of him and was soaked up; his bones and veins and skin held nothing but tiredness…

— Wallace Stegner

“What he carried with him, all he carried with him, was a lack, something like a lack of air, of proper behavior in his…

— Alice Munro