Bends Quote by Tim O'Brien

“But mostly because he could be himself - never needing to bend.”

— Niki Alling

“And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was an endless…

— Alexandra Bracken

“His eyes were alive with intellectual torture, as if pure thought was pain.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“He snorted softly. His talent had destroyed everything he had ever valued. With a shake of his head, he moved his thoughts away from…

— Mitchell Hogan

“He looked like a man who was turning into paper, folding himself into origami angles, fragile and friable and prone to crumple.”

— Alex Beecroft

“Hair like steel wool grew far back on his head and gave him a domed brown forehead that might at careless glance seemed a…

— Raymond Chandler

“He struggles to make sense of it--all this love, so bent out of shape, refracted, like light through the lens.”

— M.L. Stedman

“This line of reasoning could have frightened him, but it did not. He gained a certain strength from it. Because, after all, what can…

— Mal Peet

“The human brain can only be stretched so far before it breaks.”

— Erin Bowman

“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you ended up…

— Haruki Murakami

“His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten…

— Marcel Proust

“...he looked so strange and absentminded; quite obviously he had just been reading a book, one could tell that from the expression in his…

— Jens Peter Jacobsen