Derelict Quote by David Simon

“Staring in confusion around her, fear, panic, and finally, recognition seeped into her dazed mind. Early morning rays highlighted the water stains shining through…

— Dale Mayer

“Charlotte had never forgotten it - she was always looking for it. An old house facing seaward, ships going up and down. Spruce woods…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Nina could scarcely believe a house could be as quiet as the one on Washington Street. Although there were moments when she missed her…

— Jean Elson

“The sketch of the summer-house which she had given me on the morning of our farewell, and which had never been separated from me…

— Wilkie Collins

“Parts of her that had been separated for transit were still in limbo, unwrapping, trying to find their way home to her body. Wolf,…

— D.C. Wolf

“Nina had been told regularly since she was a child that she needed more fresh air, at which she would take her book and…

— Jenny Colgan

“The storm has brought Ulla to the cold shelter of the northern islands, to the darkened caves and flat black pools where she remains…

— Leigh Bardugo

“Another week of emptiness, of solitude, though the schooner was fully crewed and there were few places where someone could be out of sight…

— R.A. Salvatore

“another orphan officially joined their unlikely crew.”

— Hugh Howey

“She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.”

— Elizabeth strout

“Our first guests were unconventional- free spirits and hippies. We seemed to attract oddballs, and we didn't know why. Don't get me wrong. We…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“The writer was able to capture many of the feelings that I actually had as a abandoned and then adopted child. Actually I have…

— David Brodzinsky