“ It is a frightful thing to drop out of one's place in the world and never find it again. I try very hard to keep my memory green and thus by sympathy live anew, or if not anew, aright, which is more to the point, much more. Charles Frazier
“ Bellamy found simply a task of amazing difficulty. It was as if ordinary human life were a mobile machine full of holes, crannies, spaces, apertures, fissures, cavities, lairs, into one of which Bell… Iris Murdoch
“ A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to Pierrot Ana Claudia Antunes
“ Whatever. There is a natural order to things, a hierarchy. And no less so in man. For man may be the master of nature, but he is also part of it. Every living thing, from the greatest of all men to th… Austin Scott Collins
“ It was during that journey to Via Orazio that I began to be made unhappy by my own alienness. I had grown up with those boys, I considered their behavior normal, their violent language was mine. But f… Elena Ferrante
“ And I will close my eyes and prepare myself so that they can unscrew my head and allow the map to slip into my lacunae. So that I can be filled and braced from the inside and fortified for the voyage.… Marlene Van Niekerk
“ I didn't wave my daisy. I felt small, the way an ant must feel looking up at a field of wildflowers. I was nothing. I was trapped below flowers, buried under them, while girls like Lizzie Lovett dance… Chelsea Sedoti
“ Every person alive thinks they are the center of the universe, that they are everything, when in fact each of us is less than nothing. Eleanor Morse
