Time Quote by Charles Dickens

“A prickle of awareness made the hairs at the back of his neck stand. A deep chill sank into his flesh to settle around…

— Pamela K. Kinney, "Let Demon Dogs Lie," Southern Haunts: Devils in the Darkness

“The instant the words are out of his mouth, he realizes his mistake. It’s like getting smacked in the back of the head with…

— Maria Padian

“Only slowly, after long watching, did he begin to distinguish the small signs that made them trackable: the ball of gristle in the corner…

— David Malouf

“...as he finally sheds his body's suit, ------ finds his gut and throat again and newly whole, clean and unimpeded, free, catapulted home over…

— David Foster Wallace

“Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Everything he did was a physical thing.  When he spoke, my bones ached.  When he breathed, I felt it in my veins and on…

— Tyra Lynn

“This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of…

— Louise Erdrich

“And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries between a thing and thought,' she said, 'Thank…

— Steve Martin

“He stood just near the club’s steps, his back to me along the foggy English night, and it was not until I’d passed him…

— S.C. Parris

“I lived in an enclave in which our oldest had seen twenty-five years. His face was withered, and his fingers shook when he attempted…

— Ann Aguirre

“He listened to his words fall as if from the mouth of another, and watched his father’s face, which received those words as a…

— John Williams

“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald