“The bookstore was a wreck. much hadn't been a dream. I began to stand and stopped, realizing there was a sheet of paper taped to my coat. Dazedly, I pulled it off.”

“but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

“My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“Darling, all night
I have been flickering, off, on, off, on.
The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

“I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

“… this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

“I forgive the wrecked dreams,”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

“The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.”

Raymond E. Feist book Krondor: The Betrayal

“All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist