Bartleby Isolation Quotes & Sayings

Just close your eyes and relax."
Gratefully, Swift closed his eyes, trying to concentrate on nothing more than the feel of Max's hand rubbing his back. Such a simple, uncomplicated pleasure, that of touch. Max smoothed the thin skin between Swift's shoulder blades.
"This is where your wings used to be."
Swift expelled a half laugh, most of his attention fixed on the slow deliberate slide of Max's hand down his spine. Max's fingers brushed the final links of bone and cartilage."And that's where my tail used to be," Swift murmured. — Josh Lanyon

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. — Arnold Bennett

Well, that's not easy to answer when the question is so stupidly put ... — Hans Christian Andersen

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it. — Dorothy L. Sayers

'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as briskly fly. — Emily Dickinson

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public. — Christian Bauman

The house of laughter makes a house of woe. — Edward Young

Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life. — Pema Chodron

I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public. — Richard Griffiths