"The Wayward Bus" Quotes
"The Wayward Bus" by John Steinbeck explores the intersecting lives and struggles of a diverse group of passengers traveling on a slow bus through California's Salinas Valley, revealing their hopes, fears, and hidden desires.
fiction | 261 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
She was a woman who would have betrayed anyone to get ahead.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
The bus crawled on through the darkness, the air heavy with the odor of fear.
Sometimes a man can beat his fear, but he can never beat his loneliness.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.
The wayward bus had become a trap, and they were all its victims.
Sometimes a man can love a woman so much, he can overlook even her faults.
Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
The world is full of lonely people, all isolated in their own way.
Sometimes, when you're at the end of your rope, you just have to let go and trust that the universe will catch you.
