Quote by Charles Dickens

“His mouth went dry but he forced himself closer to the hole, knowing what he would find.”

— Anita Clenney

“What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key.”

— Kerry Greenwood

“And while his fingers explored, his eyes stayed on mine, filling the silence, and in them I saw the piece of me that he…

— Kate Stewart

“ . . . he thought how easy it would be to simply kick his typewriter onto the floor and smash it to pieces…

— Bodie Thoene

“Then his head sank to the floor of its own accord and from his nostrils came the last faint flicker of his breath.”

— Franz Kafka

“reached down through the closed wooden lid and struck a key. A minor key, I think.”

— J.R. Rain

“His gaze held mine so long it felt as if he would never release it. And something deep inside me did not want him…

— Tess Oliver

“I wanted to jam that pencil down his throat. He wouldn’t be chuckling then.”

— J.L. Weil

“I wished I could get inside his head and crawl through the passageways to the secret rooms until I found the one labeled with…

— Wendy Higgins

“I didn’t mean to drown him. But the soup was right there, and he was just a spoon. He wasn’t just a tool, he…

— Jarod Kintz