Desert island Quote by David Bromige

“The whole island was stained in blood and haunted with the dead. Horror stories lay beneath every square foot of this awful place, and…

— John Dixon Phoenix Island

“Around every corner, he found himself faced with another dark recess of the human condition, and the struggles people had experienced. It showed him…

— Bella Forrest

“He looked at a picture on the wall and saw everything that existed outside the room he was sitting in and the one he…

— Don DeLillo

“There was nothing to confront here at this beach: no monsters, no past, no future. Everyone left him alone, the ultimate desire of any…

— Drew Magary

“He didn't understand what happened to him. He felt like a piece of paper that had once had coherent writing on it but had…

— Jonathan Franzen

“For a moment I felt a vicious hatred for him and his quiet ways, his mundane stroll through the summer, his ordinariness, the banality…

— Colum McCann

“He was a good storyteller, but he told the kind of stories that made children run away from the village and adults look for…

— Sorin Suciu

“The stories didn't seem to care who he was or what he could do; it didn't matter. In their world, he wasn't alone. In…

— Estevan Vega

“It showed him how people continued to endure, even in the hardest circumstances imaginable, when everything else had been taken away. The world either…

— Bella Forrest

“some of it his wife’s. Her lithe body lay haphazardly on the floor by her husband’s feet. Her throat was open, the wound deep…

— Rob Sinclair

“...they'll say, 'He never recovered from that breakdown and this was the result. It had to be the breakdown--not even he was that dreadful…

— Philip Roth

“He’d seen unequivocally that the chaos he’d dedicated his life to holding at bay was stronger and wider and more powerful than he would…

— James S.A. Corey