Business Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“The day had been a slowly closing door. The rest of the world moved on out into the stream of life, while I was…

— Lia Mills

“so full of life and activity, was the sky-line of that accursed city, lurid and spattered with blood (93)”

— Émile Zola

“The sea of night was at low tide. That dreaded zone where the worst that has happened to you resurfaces to assail you once…

— Chantal Thomas

“The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll.…

— Tahir Shah

“From all over the planet they came…. They came in companies and alone, with money and without, knowing and naïve. They tore themselves from…

— H.W. Brands

“Did some deaths go on hurting? were there winds below the sea that blew as fast as all other winds but blew through you…

— Joseph McElroy

“The upside of fall was the tourists had gone home. The downside was the county stopped spraying for mosquitos and no-see-ums, so the little…

— Natasha Boyd

“The Drowned Cities hadn’t always been broken. People broke it. First they called people traitors and said they didn’t belong. Said these people were…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“I found my destination a few miles outside Swelling: a lone, squat, brown bar called The Inn of the Line...The place looked like a…

— Elliott James

“Hundreds of hopeless waves rushed constantly shorewards, falling exhausted upon a beach of great loose stones, that seemed to stretch miles and miles in…

— George MacDonald

“The NELLIE, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the…

— Joseph Conrad

“All over the world people were slipping away from where they had been, from once fertile plains cracking with dryness, from seaside villages gasping…

— Mohsin Hamid