Poor people Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“Nothing he had brought to it of his nearest comparison, Raby with its thatch'd and benevolent romance of serfdom, had at all prepar'd him…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from…

— Kingsley Amis

“The two from Bristol hung in my father’s office. He was a coroner, too, as was my grandfather. I remember my father showing them…

— Robert McCammon

“I thought then that we would all die in the darkness and solitude. I thought that an executioner would come for us silently one…

— Philippa Gregory

“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or…

— William Manchester

“had seen enough such deaths before to know that when the cloud of sorrow hangs too heavily over a person, nothing helps; no love,…

— Juliet Marillier

“Tracer lighting up the sky. It's another families' turn to die. A child afraid to even cry out says, He has been here. And…

— James Blunt

“... he feels the darkness of the grave pressing around the fire and infecting his vision so that there seems to be no separation…

— Benjamin Percy

“The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I walked away at a good pace, thinking it was easier to go than I had supposed it would be, and reflecting that it…

— Charles Dickens

“but the young dead stay with us, they color our dreams, they make us wonder about ourselves, that we should be so unlucky, or…

— John Burnside

“I’d felt this before, when my granddad was in the hospital before he died. We all camped out in the waiting room, eating our…

— Laura Anderson Kurk