“She strokes my cheeks with the side of her hand – a repetitive, wispy motion. Like little ghost kisses.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I wipe at her cheeks with the cuff of my green sweater because it’s the softest thing I can think of. It… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Dragged from your room. A red crease of sleep visible down your cheek, eyes foggy with the adjustment from a state of… — Ali Land Copy Share Image
“There were tiny rainbows in that glass. I turned it so a rainbow danced across my hand.” — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
“It’s a world worth fighting for. Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“There’s this anomaly that happens sometimes with twins. It occurs in the womb when the fetuses are growing too closely to each… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“It feels as though we’re going in slow motion. I think we’ll never get away. But eventually the Ferris wheel is far… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“He rubbed my arm, whispering words that sounded like moth bodies flying into glass windows.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“It radiates out from him like a cloud of ghosts, countless hands clutching at the air, reaching out for…something.” — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“When I call his name, it’s a sound almost entirely out of my control. It soars over the crowd and hits him.… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Ty?” I said, trying out your name, liking the way it sounded. “So what’s it like anyway? Australia?” You smiled then, and… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
“She was supposed to build sand castles on the beach and put her toes in the ocean,” Madame says.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Bright spots move around him like someone shook the stars from a blanket and they all went flying.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“This time as we ascend, I watch the world sinking below us. I watch the way the city fades into sand that… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I feel unburdened, and after a while I start to imagine that the divan is a boat moving over the ocean. Sunken… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“It's been a long time since humans were prey animals. A hundred thousand years or so. But buried deep in our genes… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“I was working the hole with the Sailor and we did not bad fifteen cents on average night boosting the afternoons and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Ódinn couldn't tear his gaze from the small featured face, the red cheeks and delicate lips that she pursed shut as if… — Yrsa Sigurðardóttir Copy Share Image
“She remembers sprinting over the thin after-waves that slid over each other like sheets of glass. When she ran with the waves… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
