“ But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... (Afterward) Edith Wharton
“ Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing th… Leslie T. Chang
“ I wish I could run away, Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients’ rooms, darting around like little ants. I can’t leave and be on my own though, not right now, anyway.Why… Rebecca McNutt
“ An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and loo… James Hogg
“ I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves. Jeanette Winterson
“ … in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never ha… Richard McSweeney
“ Rural and traditional escapism. That’s my angle. Places and events where we are free to relax and be ourselves, where nobody tells us to hurry along or conform or grow up. Somewhere we can properly li… Fennel Hudson
