Author Quotes and aphorisms about passage Samuel Johnson Abraham Verghese J. G. Ballard Karl Philipp Moritz Tananarive Due Rachel Simmons Sarah Ban Breathnach Pliny the Elder ,, Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently... Alexandra Kleeman ,, A woman's body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother's, a detachable... Graham Swift ,, It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the s...