Ernesto Sabato The Tunnel Quotes

#1. That which we cannot see rules us," she said. She stared into her drink. "I mean particles, electrons, electromagnetic forces. Secrets. Love. Time. Fear. DNA. What we cannot see controls our lives." She

Eric Bosse

#2. I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

Haruki Murakami

#3. We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

Ruth St. Denis

#4. If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

Patrick Ness

#5. [Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear.

Cheryl Strayed

#6. The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.

Gabriel Zaid

#7. The gas mask keeps me looking like any other tagger - skinny, fast, and vaguely male. Someone would have to be pretty close to tell I'm a girl, and frankly, no one ever gets that close.

April White

#8. The kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive ...

Marcel Proust

#9. Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

Eric Schlosser

#10. When left alone with nothing but one's emotions and inner thoughts for company, the nocturnal world can be completely overpowering.

Fennel Hudson

#11. Maybe love isn't something that comes full circle. It just ebbs and flows, in and out, just like the people in our lives

Colleen Hoover

#12. When you work, you are mining for success; rewards are disguised as work.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#14. With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

Lauren Oliver