“ They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could h… Madeleine L'Engle
“ He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two. James Salter
“ Delirium: What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?Dream: There isn't on… Neil Gaiman
“ The people they had been last summer, the person she had been--Dicey guessed she'd never be afraid again, not the way she had been all summer. She had taken care of them all, sometimes well, sometimes… Cynthia Voigt
“ For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he expended his art in making keen that touch upon the heart which sorrows have th… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. William Golding
“ She knows there are traps everywhere that can make her cry, she knows the way she dies a little every time someone asks her for change and she doesn't give it to them means that she's too soft for thi… Emily St. John Mandel
“ We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars) Kristina Riggle
“ There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you. Anthony Powell
“ So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past: Iw… Nicole Krauss
“ You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him. Dorothy Dunnett
“ She is here. And she comes to you, and she does not speak, and the others do not notice her, and she takes your hand, and you ready yourself to die, eyes open, aware this is all an illusion, a last ar… Mohsin Hamid
“ Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those da… Anthony Powell
“ You realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else. Jonathan Tropper
“ Ah, yeah. Yeah, tis awful all right. Well, your Mam wanted me to talk to you about it, but…’He stopped; he didn’t know what else to say.‘Yeah? Ah, I know the score, Dad. She wants me to be careful, is… Ciarán West
“ The Ache That Would Not LeaveBehind the hum and routine of daily living, there lay a persistent and wild longing for something she could not easily put into words. It felt like impulsive adventures an… John Mark Green
“ She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone. Lawren Leo
