Quote by Thomas Hardy

“He had no place in the world, he said once, therefore he could go everywhere.”

— Patricia A. McKillip

“ahead. But at his core he believed the world a lovely place. And his”

— Louise Penny

“For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about…

— Pearl S. Buck

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.”

— Arthur Golden

“He had, for a few days, forgotten that wherever he traveled, he must take his own familiar self along, and that that self would…

— Sinclair Lewis

“The people he met, the places he passed, were all steps in his journey, and he kept a place inside his heart for each…

— Rachel Joyce

“Slowly he had learned that there is a world beneath the visible one, and that people, some people at least, have a different life,…

— Marcus Sedgwick

“All he knows is that something stepped in front of him, blocking his way, until in time he gave up on things, he gave…

— Mitch Albom

“Whenever a great thinker wants to make of himself a binding institution for future mankind, one may be certain that he is past the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“...He found himself filled with joy, for now his existence had a meaning. He had a future, because he was part of a world…

— Orson Scott Card

“He too, it seemed, had come to believe that he could somehow escape history. That it was possible, and even desirable, to live in…

— Chris Abani