City-on-fire Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“She wondered at her previous blindness; it was as if she had closed her eyelids, and then fancied it was night. No fear that…

— Mary Shelley

“And I'd noticed her eyes, the lightest blue, and alive, moving here and there and then staring straight on. And now there's darkness under…

— Adam Berlin

“She was a woman of extended silences, I noticed, and she said very little as we walked the streets of La Boca, looking at…

— Thomas H. Cook

“When she shut her eyes, her mind grew alert. Her senses opened. All around her, she felt how quickly things formed and were consumed.…

— Louise Erdrich

“That was how she saw the storyteller for the last time - in an absolutely silent world, in a staircase. He'd hit his target.…

— Antonia Michaelis

“...her dark eyes were like twin entrances to two deep caves. Nothing lived in those caves. Maybe something had, once upon a time. There…

— John D. MacDonald

“She never opened up a canyon in her soul and silently disappeared into the dark recesses.”

— Sherman Alexie

“I recall how the flash of her glowing dress against my closing eyelids was like the neon glow of hotels flashing VACANCY VACANCY on…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“For a heartbeat, the silence peeled back long enough for that question to worm its way into her skull, into her skin, into her…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Her eyes register the darkness beyond the windows, then travel back to the neglected groceries. Something in her sags. And for a moment, I…

— Victoria Schwab

“But around her, the air was sad, somehow. And behind the smile in her eyes, the Grief was a fresh, shining blue. Because of…

— Arundhati Roy

“As if she sensed me, her eyes opened and when her green ones found mine, I swear, it felt like someone hit the pause…

— Ilsa Madden-Mills