“Night has fallen. And there's nothin' we can do about it.”— James Dickey, Ed Gentry, Jon Voight, imdb.com
“They said it would be invisible. Like jumping into an invisible current that just carries you away.”— Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling, Prairie Johnson, Brit Marling, imdb.com
“We are taught to be helpless and powerless. Helpless and powerless. With little pockets of fun so we don't do ourselves in.”— John O'Connor, Cal Roberts, Hugh Dancy, imdb.com
“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”— Brad Meltzer, goodreads.com
“She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.”— Sherman Alexie, amazon.com
“You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“Anger... it's a paralyzing emotion... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling. I don't think it's any of that. It's helpless... it's absence of control.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.com
“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.”— Arthur Golden, amazon.com