Bart Twiest

“MURRAY (decidedly). No. Never anything new and I knew everyone and every thing in town by heart years ago. (With sudden bitterness.) Oh, it was my own fault. Why didn't I get out of it? Well, I didn't. I was always going to to-morrow and to-morrow never came. I got in a rut and stayed put. People seem to get that way, somehow in that town. It's in the air. All the boys I grew up with nearly all, at least took root in the same way. It took pleurisy, followed by T.B., to blast me loose. EILEEN (wonderingly). But your family didn't they live there?”
― Eugene O'Neill, Plays by Eugene O'Neill

“The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,” he murmured. Thinking of her out there on the battlefield. In his tent. What more could a woman want? Quite a lot, actually.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“I don't want to be caught with my pants down.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

“The beauty of the truth is that it need not to be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will too.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale