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“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with…

— Gillian Flynn

“There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body. For the…

— Gayle Forman

“It wasn’t that shocking kind of feeling they both expected. More like a huge sigh of relief spreading through them. Like your cold, naked…

— Francesca Lia Block

“The group sat in silence, absorbing the information. The whole room felt cramped. It was as though there were something else in the cellar…

— Bella Forrest

“Quite a few soldiers . . . had ended up spending some time wrapped around each other, alone in the night. Most often, it…

— Robert Lee Wolfe

“Soldiers were coming in with just bits of their bodies, falling in love with me for an hour and then dying.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“He tried not to think, not to understand: could there be any understanding of this? This had come, had crushed, and was roaring. If…

— Andrei Bely

“It was a gorgeous calamity in scale, I thought. A lovely misfortune. Immediate and irreversible and very soon forgotten. We needed more troubles like…

— Lyndsay Faye

“They come in injured and mangled, we put them back together, then they stand in my halls making demands. A thankless lot to be…

— Kristen Britain

“They left trails. More secrets. Lies. A clear path, like a wounded animal. Some didn’t drip blood, but they’d still be messy when I…

— Alex Gates

“It was like they all had their backs to me, even the ones facing me. Their disconnect was what elegant meant. Like something vital…

— Ali Smith

“What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage hordes intoxicated with blood?”

— Henryk Sienkiewicz