Crime fiction Quote by Cornell Woolrich

“I was the sum of two people, one dead, the other unknown.”

— Vikki Wakefield

“If this was death, then death was like switching off the lights in a big house; first the farthest rooms, then the dining room…

— John Ironmonger

“They weren’t in a room, as he had supposed. They were in a corridor. The forbidden corridor on the third floor. And now they…

— J.K. Rowling

“There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with…

— George Orwell

“Without emotion, they died inside. They became the Dead Ones.”

— Rio Youers

“Death is a door to another room of your life.”

— Patrick McNulty

“When they reached the lobby and the doors opened I knew they were meant to be there, the four of them, alone.”

— Alice Sebold

“It was a room full of ghosts, arranged in readiness for days that would never happen.”

— Sharon Sant

“Death had size an color and shape, texture and grace. There was something concrete to it. In that room, Death had come and gone,…

— Téa Obreht

“and watched death come downstairs for him.”

— Nora Sakavic

“This is humanity. This is life and death in one room.”

— Kelsey Sutton

“I needed to know that Death was here, in the room, and that I was too fast, too young, and too smart for him.”

— Tony O'Neill