Corrupt Quote by J.D. Stroube

“I didn't know what to do with this new reality, the horror of my conception. I wanted to bury it in the backyard, far…

— Chevy Stevens

“I was on a lit path, a raging firestorm for him – all of him. My body ached for it. I had found the…

— Carlyle Labuschagne

“I felt limp and betrayed, like the skin shed by a terrible animal. It was a relief to be free of the animal, but…

— Sylvia Plath

“I faded out. I was for a moment my father tapping on his cigarette, the way he holds it, crushing it flat. I was…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

“For a while, it was as poisonous and wrenching as it had been since the day it happened, as intolerable: a crime against nature.…

— Ariel Levy

“I had a dreary, depressed feeling so deep in my soul that I was almost ready to believe I had one.”

— Victor Pelevin

“I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him.…

— J.D. Stroube

“...I thought about how it must feel to lose your life so early. Lose your life, as if you held an egg in your…

— Per Petterson

“Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I…

— Nicole Krauss

“Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get away on…

— Alan Bradley

“I walked far down a dirt side road and into a farmer's field - some sort of cereal that was chest high and corn…

— Douglas Coupland

“I was a wrecked thing smeared over with dark finger marks and stuck with shards of nightmare, and I had no right there any…

— Tana French