Quote by D.H. Lawrence

“Messinath of Purge,”

— Ian C. Esslemont

“Off the Santorini cliff on a dark, starless night, I tossed a message in a bottle and love found me washed up on the…

— Melody Lee

“It is a terrible thing to do to unusual people, to drive them so deeply into themselves that each reemergence is a volcanic explosion.”

— Guntram Vesper

“The townsfolk in their darkened rooms were dazed as if by some cataclysm, some devastating earthquake, against which all wisdom and all resistance is…

— Guy de Maupassant

“We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentor what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And when there…

— Mark Lawrence

“they are a most depressed and depressing group, for they are all, you see, exiles or refugees or travelers between the worlds who lost…

— Michael Moorcock

“In working with the wounded at Gallipoli, the lead character comments, “Perhaps life was the nightmare and death the awakening.”

— Anne Perry

“It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it,…

— Harriet Brown

“...and that touched off something else...old sorrows, good friends gone down into the earth. Sometimes I picture death as a wide stone stair-case, filled…

— Sue Grafton

“They reminded me of the people of my village, their indomitable spirit in the face of disaster, their unshakable belief that no matter what…

— Lian Hearn

“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless…

— Laura Tillman