The Wall Quotes

“You're not impatient any more. Then you were in a hurry, because you thought you could encompass everything in your life. You wanted to learn everything and experience everything and be everybody. In a way, that was charming and delightful in you: I used to write in my notebooks that you were zestful. But it also made you seem confused. You did things in fits and starts. You learned as a stammerer talks ... Today, you are not in such a hurry. I think you have decided that you can do only a few things at all well, and they are more than enough.”
― John Hersey, The Wall

“Mankind must destroy anti-humanity before it becomes extinct itself.”
― John Hersey, The Wall

“Water rolled down the face of the old house like tears,”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Wall

“The trouble was that she could not see herself without money, and it seems never to have occurred to her that she could earn it.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Wall

“Liquor for men and tears for women,” he would say. “What would we do without them?”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Wall

“The world’s full of people grieving for somebody they cared about. It’s sheer sentimentality to worry about the ones we don’t.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Wall