Quote by Frances Hardinge

“Mosca had preferred it when she could hear the edge in her companion’s voice. Now she felt like someone who knows that there is…

— Frances Hardinge

“Irrationally, Mosca felt she should have inherited her father’s intimate knowledge of Mandelion. His throwaway comments about the city should have magically meshed in…

— Frances Hardinge

“Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone. Her kidneys…

— Rainbow Rowell

“Sometimes she sat and let her mind go blank and her eyes go out of focus, so that she watched the slow, jerky movements…

— Robert Goolrick

“It transformed and sharpened everything she saw, smelled, felt. She could hear the ping of water moving through the pipes and smell metal in…

— Dennis Lehane

“she felt the wind rise, felt the pinprick of pebble and grit against her stockings and her cheeks—the slivered shards of mad sunlight in…

— Alice McDermott

“She constantly felt as if she were physically wading through air the consistency of thick, wet cement. The”

— Susan May

“She had told Erstwhile too much in the past, and thus he knew that occasionally she did go crazy. Sometimes it was when she…

— Frances Hardinge

“Her heartbeat picks up, her pulse fluttering through her neck and wrists. She loves this part, loves the moment before she pulls off a…

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

“It started at her mouth with just a wobble, a tremble of her lips. Then her hands joined in, fingers shaking until she had…

— Kennedy Ryan

“My breathing calmed and I left my body. I felt myself rising up from the floor, where I was pinned. It was a very…

— Olga Trujillo

“She lifted the girl's shirt, showing her ribs and the pointy bumps of her spine. They were like the bones of some animal who'd…

— Amy Goldman Koss