Quote by Terry Pratchett

“He did not know what he sought or what his journeys would bring him; but he had a feeling that he would learn something…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“A great many people, he had noticed, spent large parts of their time worrying about things they were powerless to alter. Had they concentrated…

— Setterfield Diane

“And he wasn’t sure why today it seemed so important, but he had learned not to question motives. If the heart needed to take…

— Heather Burch

“No, it wasn't the attention he needed. He just wanted to create something and know that it mattered to someone, that he mattered. That…

— Marie Lu

“If you thought hard enough, he’d always considered, you could work out everything. The wind, for example. It had always puzzled him until the…

— Terry Pratchett

“Sometimes life just did things, he felt, and they didn't have to make sense. It helped when they did, and often the sense of…

— Adam P. Knave

“And it interests him less to have the world reinvented; he wants it explained.”

— Ian McEwan

“He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.”

— William Golding

“had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the…

— Douglas Adams

“It didn’t matter who he might have been. That was not who he was now. He created himself each day and slowly built his…

— Ginn Hale

“All he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter--expectation was such an innovative concept…

— Colson Whitehead

“It seemed to him that nothing would ever be explained, and that all of a sudden each day was slipping away, that time was…

— Kim Stanley Robinson