Time Quote by Alice McDermott

“Storms without rain. Winds without water. She woke, and when she sat up, the dust fountained off her and the voice that accompanied her…

— Will Ferguson

“Now, as the labor began, it was the storm she recalled. The thrash of wind and trees and the quiet terror that had kept…

— Alice McDermott

“Although she was no longer weeping and appeared remarkably composed, I knew that behind that facade, someone was breaking inside. Piece by piece, she…

— Shahid Hussain Raja

“Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. Each half was glowing, and beating under all that white.…

— Markus Zusak

“The afternoon slipped away while we talked -- she talked brightly when any subject came up that interested her -- and it was the…

— Ellen Glasgow

“She was like the dust that clung to his shirt. She was in the silences that had become so frequent at the house, silences…

— Khaled Hosseini

“The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring…

— Markus Zusak

“The night sky was deepening, the moonbeams stalking the trees, making them look like men lining the road. Ghosts in this area, she knew.…

— J.T. Ellison

“Even then, only a child, she knew she had to pretend to be someone else -- for her parents, for their customers, for everyone…

— Leslie Parry

“All at once she could hear the sullen patter of the rain and sense the sigh of the wind behind it. She remembered the…

— Robert Bloch

“She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so that she could see the stars. They always eased her lonesomeness. She…

— Kristin Cashore

“Her thoughts rambled, but she wasn’t daydreaming. Her senses were sharp. She caught the fall of every leaf in the garden, the rustle of…

— Kristin Cashore