“ I look at him and my body reacts in a way that it never has before, even in the throes of passion. I look at him and I start aching so deep inside it takes all I can to think, to breathe, to speak. He… D.L. Hess
“ There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered. Garth Risk Hallberg
“ He stopped the flyersAnd by his rare example made the cowardTurn terror into sport. As weeds beforeA vessel under sail, so men obeyedAnd fell below his stem. His sword, Death's stamp,Where it did mark… William Shakespeare
“ Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. Thiruvalluvar
“ She was truly happy for the first time in her life, and it felt just like living in a small room painted all white, with windows looking out onto impenetrable forest. Alexandra Kleeman
“ Then the nurse did turn to glance, and then stare—actually stare—at me. His look made me feel as if I was green, or whistling, or dead. Rivka Galchen
“ Charlie tried to focus on what she was saying, but his head felt packed with gauze. Like no one could reach him in here, where it hurt. Garth Risk Hallberg
“ My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.I lock away the things that do not serve me. Tahereh Mafi
“ He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the barest traces of what had once been a life. His body was like a dilapidated old house from… Haruki Murakami
“ My emotions swirl like leaves caught in the breath of a dust devil, and the only thing I can seem to hold onto is the anger. Emily Murdoch
“ Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child. Matthew De Abaitua
“ We were a bit like bacon and eggs, where y'know, the chicken is involved, but the pig is really committed? I totally gave myself to it just as we promised, "for better or worse", and you didn't see it… Dawn French
“ Was she Minh Thuy, finally, or was she Jenny? But the time when there had been a meaningful difference between the two would come to seem like a tiny neighborhood where you couldn't decide which house… Garth Risk Hallberg
“ A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one. Phoebe Stone
“ Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear... then his message was easily understood. Brandon Andress
“ Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to. Catherine Lacey
“ The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them. Jasper Fforde
