I felt that I was burning underwater.

“The cotton swab softly moved across my face, leaving a pleasant coolness behind. It swept over my forehead, down my nose, on the sides…

— Ree Drummond

“He kept thinking about one word—forever—and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he’d ever gotten.”

— John Green

“The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered in mist,…

— Virginia Woolf

“Madoc was always calm, after all. So calm all the damn time growing up. He didn’t shout or show his anger until he’d had…

— Penelope Douglas

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can…

— Robert Cormier

“Wherever you travel to, appreciate the culture and beauty of the place.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“It was pouring earlier, great sheets of rain, and now the clouds outside the window are crystal tipped, like mountain peaks in the sky,…

— Christina Baker Kline

“All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses. It was the flutter…

— Eowyn Ivey

“Sparkling bronze azure eyed Blazure's skyblue bow and eyes.”

— James Joyce

“It was becoming a nightmare. Ronan could hear the night horrors coming, in love with his blood and his sadness.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Her beautiful face was blank as an unwritten book.”

— Naomi Novik

“But in the name of all that is holy, Mosca, of all the people you could have taken up with, why Eponymous Clent?" murmured…

— Frances Hardinge

“You don't need an entire garden bed, to notice the beauty of a flower.”

— Nikki Rowe

“Nothing is set in stone. A bird can be refolded into a boat, a fish, a kimono, or any other extravagant vision. At other…

— Tor Udall