Fence post Quote by Eric Arvin

“Children would beg for a peppermint drop each time he walked into town, and they'd follow behind, asking for a second and a third.…

— Alice Hoffman

“Boys, men, old toothless women had run along beside the car when the train was again in motion, calling, offering bananas, guavas, mangoes, paper…

— Leonard Gardner

“The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in…

— Henry James

“Let's see, what've we got for the little girl to eat? Nothing, I hoped, but he brought a tin of Christmas candies, which seemed…

— Munro Alice

“Then she rooted around until she found the bathroom medicine cabinet. It used to contain a bottle of aspirin. Now it contained her scream…

— Ian Tregillis

“Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish and glee…

— Margaret Atwood

“As a kid, his favorite toy had been a snow globe, that held a small town of gingerbread buildings and peppermint streets. He’d wanted…

— Jodi Picoult

“When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with a shrill…

— Franz Kafka

“After the shot he collapsed on the bed and lay there inert, but something was stirring in his spine from neck to the tail…

— William S. Burroughs

“A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s body and…

— James Dashner

“This light-shouldered boy could jitterbug, old style, and would; he was more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold. We jitterbugged...Only the strenth…

— Annie Dillard

“dressed like a policeman!" BUT the nurse said: "I will set a mouse-trap!" SO that is the story of the two Bad Mice. But…

— Beatrix Potter