Experience Quote by Tim O'Brien

“He had perhaps seen fifty springs and was therefore already very old, but his tireless body moved with an agility I myself often lacked.”

— Umberto Eco

“The rattler began to coil. Soon it would realize that it could not strike at such a distance, and would attempt to retreat.”

— Dean Koontz

“It seemed as if at least a moment some spring had burst forth in his barren soul.”

— Väinö Linna

“There's no spring in his step. No smile on his face. There's just a grim determination, grown strong over the years due to the…

— Shawn P. McCarthy

“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There was already something dead about him. He didn’t rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked.…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“I whirled to see the snake springing up from the ferns and bouncing towards us, fast. This time we turned and ran. Every time…

— Kenneth Oppel

“He felt all of the tension rush out of him. Without it, he could hardly stand up.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“He didn't want to fall, even though there was no one to see him. It was a matter of pride. A gunslinger knows pride…

— Stephen King

“Now he [Rattler] was staring at Prairie with an intensity you could light fires with. And she stared back. There was something between them,…

— Sophie Littlefield

“...the Need was very strong now, very careful cold coiled creeping crackly cocked and ready, very strong, very much ready now—and still it waited…

— Jeff Lindsay

“He was frightened for his country. Slowly and tragically it was drifting in the wrong direction. Something had to be done. Tiny gestures. Barely…

— Timothée de Fombelle