Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them. - Richard Paul Evans But when tragedy strikes, it leaves no part of your life, of your being, untouched, unscathed, unscarred. - M Leighton

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. - Joan Didion An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. - Gerald R Ford

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. - Joan Didion An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. - Gerald R Ford