Brick wall Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“Perhaps, over the years, like most things, the walls had aged. Thinned. Worn thin by the day to day endlessness of its own existence.”

— Chesya Burke

“Be careful: everything fades, everything vanishes. Something must remain of us…”

— André Breton

“Life was full for me. There were so many things to find out and a lot I had to prove to myself. The days…

— James Herriot

“It's very peaceful. Like perhaps the life of a ghost. Carefree and without worry. I naturally let the wind take me forwards when it…

— Inio Asano

“Now I will walk, as if I had an end in view, across the room, to the balcony under the awning. I see the…

— Virginia Woolf

“As I turned to leave, I looked down. Beside my foot, a sprout of greenery was clawing its way through the pristine nothingness to…

— J.D. Stroube

“It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more…

— Haruki Murakami

“for years, maybe for my whole life, it felt as though there was a brick wall down the middle of everything. Standing outside those…

— Liz Murray

“I left the apartment without even bothering to close the door behind me. Once outside, I faced a world of buildings and faces that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“And then I sagged forward, utterly spent, emptied…light as air. I felt like I could have floated up and out…slipping through the open window…

— Josh Lanyon

“...the night is suddenly vaster, colder, clearer. All the stars zing; the mountains glitter; towns and villages gather like bright mould in the valley-seams…

— Margo Lanagan

“The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now…

— Virginia Woolf