“ IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT, said Owen Meany, MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD John Irving
“ She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears. Ali Smith
“ The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it could sense it. It could sense some form of tragedy and helplessness be… Markus Zusak
“ I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? T… Markus Zusak
“ If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. Markus Zusak
“ There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious. Leo Tolstoy
“ Never had I felt so much the slave as when I scoured those stone steps each afternoon. Working against time, I would wet five steps, sprinkle soap powder, then a white doctor or a nurse would come and… Richard Wright
“ I had been running as fast as I could for all of my adult life. A person can’t listen effectively while running. A running mother is not able to pick up clues. She is not able to let go of her own age… Irene Tomkinson
“ Nefret was still pouting when Emerson helped her into the carriage. Emerson did not observe the pout. He would not have observed it (men being what they are) even if something had not distracted him. Elizabeth Peters
“ We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings. Eric Samuel Timm
