China Quote by Victor Robert Lee

“But she saw that his eyes, which were sand-colored like his face, and sandy-lashed, had found another occupation. They were fixed on Conchita Closson,…

— Edith Wharton

“At that moment, she knew exactly how Conall had felt when she disappeared into the mountain. Her chest ached as if her heart had…

— Vivienne Savage

“He felt Death reaching out to him. But all of a sudden there was something else, too: words. Words that relieved the pain, cooled…

— Cornelia Funke

“Every time he thought he’d familiarized himself with its contours, grief surprised him; it was ever bountiful, ever yielding.”

— Gregg Hurwitz

“That world seemed to have vanished, but for a long time the image I had of my father, which I still preserve today, was…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“In the back of his mind, he had always wondered why — why they harbored such resentment for him. Now he had the answer, and he…

— Tracy Winegar

“Yet whenever he thought of himself as a dull, deluded opportunist, compared with other people, he always remembered the intensity of his own feelings…

— John P. Marquand

“He couldn't think of a good place. At first he thought she hated all living beings equally. Lately he had come to believe he…

— John Varley

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He was shadows. Cool, calm, dead. Like Conash. The boy who had been Conash, but was no longer. Dead boy. Dead Son. Born dead…

— T.C. Southwell

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He did not so much understand with his mind…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky