“ 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
