Efrain Macpherson

“There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

“The careful observance of discipline is the mark of the artiste.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Catch Trap

“How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible