Latest Quotes

“There was a depression over the Atlantic.”

— Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails

“At five-forty-five in the morning, Paul and I rousted ourselves from our warm bunk and peered out of the small porthole in our cabin aboard the SS America.”

— Julia Child, My Life in France

“Long before the first bugles sounded from the barracks within the city and the cantonments surrounding it, most of the people in the city were already awake.”

— William Faulkner, A Fable

“Behind the smokehouse that summer, Ringo and I had a living map.”

— William Faulkner, The Unvanquished

“The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight.”

— Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

“Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town.”

— Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

“On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who later was to be the cause of a sensation in New York, awoke much too early for her night before.”

— John O'Hara, BUtterfield 8

“Shortly after dawn, or what would have been dawn in a normal sky, Mr. Artur Sammler with his bushy eye took in the books and papers of his West Side bedroom and suspected strongly that they were the wrong books, the wrong papers.”

— Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet (Penguin Classics)

“The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.”

— D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Classics)

“It is nine-fifteen on this hot September morn, hotter than any summer day we had.”

— Sue Kaufman, Diary of a Mad Housewife: A Novel

“My fatal flaw is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I’m tempted to make the explanation for that complicated, but it’s pretty simple: we worked ourselves to the point of exhaustion, struggled to raise money and just ran out of time. The site, newsletter and app are beloved by tens of thousands of people, including many of the writers and publishers I…”

— Andrew Golis, Tough news. — This. news

“'Do you really think we can get away with it?'”

— Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary: A Novel

“Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.”

— Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“The automatic doors at Austin International Airport whoosh open, ejecting me into a bright, sunny afternoon.”

— Kate Mccarthy, The End Game

“In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times.”

— Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.”

— Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“Nurse Thorton dropped into the long-term-care ward a little before eight with a hot bag of blood for Charlie Manx.”

— Joe Hill, NOS4A2: A Novel

“The body you are wearing used to be mine.”

— Daniel O'malley, The Rook

“In the darkness, he touched her arm and said, 'Stay here.'”

— Michael Crichton, State of Fear