English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Harold Brodkey Quotes

the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy.

Harold Brodkey

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Emily Watson quote: "I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I..."
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do. Emily Watson
Love is a shadow./How you lie and cry after it./Listen: these are its hooves: it has gone off, like a horse./All night I shall gallop thus, impetuously,/Till your head is a stone, your pillow a little turf,/Echoing, echoing. Sylvia Plath
a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Amanda Seyfried quote: "My sister keeps me grounded."
My sister keeps me grounded. Amanda Seyfried
In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler. Kurt Student
Jim Clyburn quote: "Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's..."
Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs. Jim Clyburn
Umberto Eco quote: "but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom..."
but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric. Umberto Eco
Cat Osterman quote: "I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the..."
I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good. Cat Osterman
It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so. Thomas L. Smith
I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together. Robbie Keane
Dean Koontz quote: "Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake."
Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake. Dean Koontz
Margaret Sanger quote: "The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its..."
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. Margaret Sanger
Laura Schlessinger quote: "Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about..."
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. Laura Schlessinger
Paul Bremer quote: "I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and..."
I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope. Paul Bremer
My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life. Thomas Kretschmann