Quote by Augustus Rose

“... hurt burrowed deeper than anything she'd ever felt, deep enough to change from the thing she felt to the thing she was.”

— Anthony Marra

“The night is a tunnel, she thought, a hole into tomorrow...”

— Frank Herbert

“You could say she hid there, in the words, an escape within an escape...”

— Aurelie Sheehan

“She buried herself so deep in the book no harm could ever find her.”

— Susan Johnson

“She felt, beneath her feet, the shifting of the planks she'd laid across the quicksand of that other life. She'd thought she could escape…

— Laini Taylor

“I saw a hole, so I felt obliged to crawl into it. I can't get out now.”

— Kei Urana

“(...) that the creature I loved was lying somewhere in a hole underground, to all intents and purposes dead until dark.”

— Charlaine Harris

“Without any way out, not even toward the depth.”

— Franz Kafka

“As her husband held her close, she could feel the pulse of other choices, other lives, opening up beneath her. Her past crackled behind…

— Dan Chaon

“Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Lee tried to imagine spending that much of her life dedicated to something so inconsequential. Then she thought of what she had spent time on…

— Augustus Rose

“We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.”

— Joseph Monninger