Quote by Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“I felt dry as if someone had skinned me. I was not the bones and meat, but the cast-aside skin. The heat had hollowed…

— Sonya Hartnett

“The pain broke through the skin, dismantled her pores, and ate away at everything that was once strong. She was laid bare with nothing…

— J. Autherine

“It was a voice she had heard before, deep and raspy. It made her bones crack and splinter, made her feel the astonishing cold…

— Sarah J. Maas

“...she discovered that her feet were cold, her head ached, and that her heart was colder than the former, fuller of pain than the…

— Louisa May Alcott

“What little strength he had left flowed out of him and was soaked up; his bones and veins and skin held nothing but tiredness…

— Wallace Stegner

“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

“He pushed a hand inside the blankets to feel her cheek, her shoulder. Trickles of water ran across her face as her hair melted.…

— Robert Jordan

“Of late, she had felt coldness in herself, and though she feared it, she loved it too, for it made her strong.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“She was carrying with her, the cold. She was holding on to that icy stone of grief. It had been there all along, sitting…

— Kali Wallace

“There was a hollow in her chest, but at the bottom of this emptiness a heavy weight pressed down and bruised her stomach, so…

— Carson McCullers

“She wrote sniffing back the tears that flowed over the version of things that her unconscious insisted on sicking up.”

— Helen Hodgman

“Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost?”

— Tess Gerritsen