Awe Quote by Tim O'Brien

They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their…

— Tove Jansson

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

“They wore their anguish like armour, their anger slung across their bodies like ammunition belts. At that moment, perhaps because they were this armed,…

— Arundhati Roy

“Some so weighty we carry them our whole lives. They can blight our very existence, or they can make us stronger. They can make…

— Louise Penny

“Variously weighted with lies, guns, and groceries, the three of them were a small and solemn troop.”

— Thomas Harris

“You had the physical bullies and the emotional bullies and they both revelled in destroying lives. No, she had no time for them. But…

— Steven Erikson

“Humans might not have the strength and regenerative powers of the immortal tribes, but they were ferocious, maniacal little shits. They also had some…

— Bethany Lovell

“In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling…

— Paul Hoffman

They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote.…

— Cormac McCarthy