Alive Quote by Ilona Andrews

“I’m like a beautiful tortoise. I don’t waste my energy. Life is precious to me now.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“What are you?" I whispered."What are we to you?" She lay still, rested her head on her topmost coil. "You know me as no…

— Octavia E. Butler

“It didn’t break the trance. She wasn’t sure that anything could, and briefly wondered if they’d stay like this until flesh rotted away from…

— Ashton Morgan

“What are you grinning for?' he asked the figure on the next branch. I CAN'T HELP IT, said Death. NOW WOULD YOU BE SO…

— Terry Pratchett

“Neeve looked up then, all of her supplies gathered in her arms. Her gaze was the unbreakable one that could last an eternity.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I see a glint in her eye as she looks at me and it makes me smile. Hold our breath? she seems to say.…

— Ally Condie

“Well," she said again, turning to him and tipping back her head to meet his gaze. "As the begetting of an heir holds such…

— C.L. Wilson

“Can I have my ear back?" He asked irritably. She blinked. "Mother, can you tell this creature here to loosen her hold?”

— Anya Wylde

“What will we do first?” Tabitha asked her. They were soaring high above the castle, descending in lazy loops as Tabitha slid from one…

— Austin J. Bailey

“I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. Goes to sleep all winter and doesn't eat…

— Agatha Christie

“Celeste looked like she was ready to break something. I sat there. I kept telling myself that”

— Kiera Cass

“Then she set it aside. (She set everything aside. There was some hollow place inside her that few and grew.)”

— Genevieve Valentine