City-on-fire Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“It wasn't so much the words themselves as what they symbolised; that someone out there was thinking of you.”

— Maya Cross

“Another spell had been thrust upon her so long ago...She hadn't been able to see it but it was real. Otherwise why would you…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Now he understood. He had dreamed about her countless times, on that same staircase, with that same blue dress and that same movement of…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“It took a few seconds of staring to process that she was standing right here in front of me. She wasn’t an illusion I’d…

— Devney Perry

“Every time he thought he knew everything about her, had unwillingly memorized every last detail, something inside her flickered and changed, and he felt…

— Julia Quinn

“She’d read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it…

— Jojo Moyes

“Who cared that he couldn't spell? She was a good-enough speller for both of them. With luck, their children would take after her.”

— Delia Ephron

“And so she thought about him as she never could have imagined thinking about anyone...”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew…

— Margaret Craven

“She hadn’t heard anything from him, not a single word. Really, she hadn’t expected to, but knowing it and then living it were two…

— Ella Frank

“I seem at once cursed to say precisely what I'm thinking to him and unable to tell what he thinks about it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“She's not like he imagined. He won't admit to picturing how she'd be while he was growing up, but there was always something in…

— Ali Hazelwood