Whole world Quote by Tim O'Brien

“Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn't dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide open?”

— Ellen Hopkins

“I'd be happy to stay on the straight and narrow, but I've never even been able to figure out where it is.”

— Maurizio de Giovanni

“If I kept looking hard enough maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“Or maybe, in my gut, I felt like I was missing out on something. I knew there was more to life than a pixelated…

— Katie Kacvinsky

“Life is so big. Do not try to fill it. Instead, expand within. You are enough for you.”

— Bryant McGill

“until I almost thought he would gradually blow his whole being into the large hole at the top, and ooze away at the keys.”

— Charles Dickens

“What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“But I knew deep down that the stuff behind could not just be dropped like it had nothing to do with what was ahead...There…

— Bruce Brooks

“It feels ... as though doors were opening all over the world... It's bigger, somehow, the world.”

— Louise Fitzhugh

“It was like a tight knot inside me was gradually loosening, a knot I’d never even realized, until then, was there.”

— Haruki Murakami

“From up here, the world doesn’t seem so small and confining.”

— John Edgell

“But down deeper, something I'd seen as solid-- not perfect, but solid-- was suddenly crumbling. I felt like I was falling to pieces right…

— Sarah Dessen