The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and… — Gordon W. Allport Copy Share Image
Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomach in a hangman’s noose. It is this same… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
Apparitions are often confused with hauntings. The difference is that apparitions are "live" (intelligent consciousness) and hauntings are "recordings. — Loyd Auerbach Copy Share Image
In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms… — Ursula Hegi Copy Share Image
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
“And there has been no attempt to investigate it,' I said, 'to see what it really is?' 'Eh, Cornel,' said the coachman's… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
I absolutely fell in love with David Cristofanos writing. THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE is that rare novel--its the one youve… — Johanna Edwards Copy Share Image
“The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into the hall was… — E.F. Benson Copy Share Image
A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
It's great when somebody is able to communicate an actual shot sequence to you and you know the world you're inhabiting with… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
Be sure to ‘notice’ ideas when you have them. Stop. Take the time to consider them seriously. And if your gut tells… — Tim Westergren Copy Share Image
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
And I start to say, no. Start to ask him to please just take it off and put it away. Start to… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing… — Daniel Breaker Copy Share Image
