Parenting Quote by Darynda Jones

“He’d gone willingly enough. Garrett had always been fair, a mentor. He both regretted his acquiescence and thanked God he’d been the one asked…

— J.T. Ellison

Garrett must have sensed I was awake. "Hey Detective," he said to Uncle Bob, who was now trudging across the grating toward us. "I…

— Darynda Jones

“It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts had a mind…

— Sasha Mizaree

“Heath knew me when I was a gangly little girl with bloody kneecaps and prairie grass in my hair. He'd seen me sobbing and…

— Layne Fargo

“Thoughts crawled around my head in all directions like big lazy caterpillars. I gave up, closed my eyes, and let myself drift.”

— Ilona Andrews

“You almost exploded. Which, thank goodness, you didn’t. You’d never have come out of Garrett’s carpet.”

— Darynda Jones

“It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it. … The silence seemed to be trying to tell him…

— Haruki Murakami

“The room was so unearthly quiet, I lost all sense of time being divided into seconds. I felt that I was the only person…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.”

— Madeline Miller

“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for…

— Patrick deWitt

“I kept my head down but my thoughts moving.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“I dwell on great thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita