Quote by Alan McDermott

“His gloom seeped through the house, oozing under doorways like some noxious gas, so that all of them became infected by it.”

— J.K. Rowling

“[A wasp] was sucking jam on my plate, and I cut him in half. He paid no attention, merely went on with his meal,…

— George Orwell

“There was a horrible, wrenching sound, a screech of protesting metal, and one of the screams peaked at a shivering, violent point—then dissolved into…

— Jim Butcher

“Charlie explained to me that an exploding shell is going to spread its shrapnel on an angle upward. You get down and stay down…

— Charles Brandt

“Something horrible had happened here, and had left it's residue behind. It seemed to rise from the bottom of the tiled pool and leak…

— Lani Woodland

“One small boy jumps over a table, pulls his jumper and shirt up, and turns his back to us to show where shrapnel wounded…

— Richard Flanagan

“This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Silence in the shell of a city, no baby crying, no car honking, no ambulance shrieking, no lovers moaning, no drunks throwing up in…

— Anne Roiphe

“Watch your step," said Slash. Jig stopped, fully expecting to be shot, poisoned, crushed, or maybe all three at the same time. "What is…

— Jim C. Hines

“I backed out of the kitchen. Griff was a rigid shadow halfway down the hall, his gaze trained on the door at the end.…

— Emma Lord

“It was a flaking scab on a fleshy field of neglect.”

— Hunter Shea

“...the poison was in the wound, and the wound remained ever open..”

— Vladimir Nabokov