Important life Quote by Tove Jansson

“He felt rather like someone lying in a bath after all the water has run out, witless, almost dead.”

— Malcolm Lowry

“It was difficult to understand that he would not come into the bungalow again and that when he got up in the morning she…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Could she stick her hand in that sink? Did she dare put in the drain plug? Every time she moved toward it, she shrank…

— Vanessa Wolf

“What he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him.”

— Herman Melville

“I felt trapped in my own body, once again in a labyrinth that I didn’t know the way out of. But that labyrinth was…

— Ali Blythe

“I live well! I may have been swallowed, but I have no intention of being eaten.”

— Mac Barnett

“I thought he was living a secret life, but maybe he was just in a quiet corner somewhere, reading.”

— Elise Sax

“I am his tomb. The earth is nothing. Dead. Staves and orchards issue from my mouth. His. Perfume my chest, which is wide, wide…

— Jean Genet

“She hops expectantly into the sink. I turn on the tap for her; she laps without a glance in my direction, like a duchess…

— Peter Trachtenberg

“Am I living?'...I forgot myself, and sank into dim and watery oblivion.”

— Annie Dillard

“he had a lifetime of experience in not being eaten. He had gotten pretty good at it.”

— Scott Straughan

“Fortunately, though she was hungry, she didn't mind missing a meal. Life was full of meals. They took up an enormous proportion of one's…

— Elizabeth von Arnim