Ends Quote by Tim O'Brien

You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance…

— Anonymous

Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes.…

— Amitava Kumar

The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas,…

— Charles Dickens

the ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments

— Anonymous

“I knew that in the last few minutes everything had changed. I'd tried to hold myself apart, showing only what I wanted, doling out…

— Sarah Dessen

All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull…

— Veronica Roth

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

— Arthur Golden

Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each…

— Edward Gibbon

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

— Milan Kundera

Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love,…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

— Lewis B. Smedes

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other…

— Franz Grillparzer