Quote by Hugh Howey

“It was dark, and there was light. Flashing, burning. There was warmth, and there was ice. Melting, oozing. I was flying, but I had…

— Carian Cole

“I imagined that the building carried the sadness of the women who'd been trapped there...I didn't see them--there was no visible mass of ghosts…

— Claire Messud

“The air was stained by shadows, a darkness burst by lightning like camera flashes.”

— China Miéville

“A figure moved, painfully flexing stiff, aching shoulder blades, and looked back towards the control tower. There was a different atmosphere about the place…

— Joy Ellis

“The space between the next two buildings was crowded with four torn bodies, limbs shredded from torsos, intestines strewn like party streamers. Suddenly one…

— James Rollins

“Then it was a rumble, causing the house to groan and small clouds of dust to drop from the ceiling. The table scuttled over…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“In daylight her death had taken on a reality. It lived in the house with them, in the dust on the floors, the blankness…

— Gregg Hurwitz

“He gazed up at the spot where her window had looked out over the fields. Smoke had billowed out through the hole in the…

— D.M. Pulley

“I turned and held the blade above us all as an ineffective shield. The bloodstain on the ceiling now spread almost wall to wall;…

— Jonathan Stroud

“There was a cry heard, and a crash. The cry was so horrible in its agony that the frightened servants woke and crept out…

— Oscar Wilde

“And I'm sure There was blood in the gutter from somebody's head Or else it was the sunset in a puddle,”

— Christopher Fry

“Suddenly, I found myself running along the rooftop, leaping and falling. Falling until I caught the zip-line handle and then I was zooming, flying…

— Maya Bode