Quote by Hilary Mantel

“He had the time to hear, like a person who believed there was someone alive beneath the rubble of herself, who heard the soft…

— Anne Lamott

“Silently we went round and round, And through each hollow mind The memory of dreadful things Rushed like a dreadful wind, And horror stalked…

— Oscar Wilde

“It is only a deep echo, perhaps a reverberation of her husband’s madness, as soft as a rustle of batwings in a cave.”

— Stephen King

“... this stray little thought released in him some echo of the past, a solitary trembling note whose sound rose higher and higher in…

— Olga Grushin

“The doleful, ugly sounds became entangled in his whiskers.”

— Maxim Gorky

“The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.”

— Ayn Rand

“He did not know what to say in the face of such sorrow. He sat in silence by his sister's side in the spring…

— Halldor Laxness

“This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“What is that apathetic being doing?' she demanded, pushing the thick entangled locks from her wasted face. 'Has he fallen into a lethargy, or…

— Emily Brontë

“they’d fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they’d eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a…

— Karen Marie Moning

“...I still cannot tap on your walls and discover by the hollow or firm sounds which of your walls are merely decorative, and which…

— Philip J. Hilts