Desperate Quote by Benjamin Black

“He was looking me over in that weird, intense way he had, like I was a rare species of beetle and he was a…

— Eli Easton

“He had all the self-preservation instincts of a bug near a shiny windshield.”

— Karen Chance

“He felt a chill on the back of his neck. It was self-doubt, the black beetle that had pursued him all his life, pinching…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“He looked distraught, though perhaps he always looked like that, given that he didn’t eat enough or sleep enough or witness sunlight anywhere other…

— Molly Collier

“He thought of himself not as something heavy that left tracks behind it, but if anything, as a speck upon the surface of an…

— J.M. Coetzee

“...like a moth lost in dawn's light.”

— Gisèle Pineau

“The image of him shifted with the violent frenzy of leaves. He was there and he wasn’t, as the leaves whipped and the lightning…

— Gwenn Wright

“He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies.”

— Kim Newman

“He felt closer to dust, he said, then to light, air or water. There was nothing he found so unbearable as a well-dusted house,…

— W.G. Sebald

“But here at Laurelfield, there was something more in the mornings, a buzzing sensation about the whole house, as if it weren't the servants…

— Rebecca Makkai

“He stood in the doorway with his hands in his pockets, the picture of nonchalance, and even as a human, he was too gorgeous…

— Julie Kagawa

“She was back on the ground, looking down at the bugs rather than up at the sky.”

— Ann Brashares