Crime Quote by Andrew Barrett

“Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender…

— Sarah Sundin

“She felt a lump form in her throat, and she swallowed hard. She wouldn't have this-the swollen ankles and pink cheeks and the feel…

— Sarah Pekkanen

“it scared her, how you could return home in a different body, how something big could be happening inside you and no one even…

— Brit Bennett

“Even though she knew it wasn't biologically possible for her heart to rise into her throat, she swallowed it anyway.”

— Dean Koontz

“Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone. Her kidneys…

— Rainbow Rowell

“Her knees quaked, but she swallowed the blood in her mouth and took another breath. She had not imagined it would end like this.…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Before, there had been this small, shiny thing inside her that kept her immune from what was happening, and now she knew it had…

— Tatjana Soli

“I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.”

— Neil Gaiman

“She felt a swollen green sac of poison pulsing somewhere inside her -- bitter stuff, hateful as hemlock. She was afraid that if that…

— Stephen King

“as if he were trying to escape the smell of her words as if the air from her talking came into his mouth and…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any…

— Karen Abbott

“That's the thing. Fortunately, she came down with a nasty case of decapitation before she could bite me.”

— Steve McHugh