Compelling Quote by J. Rose Black

“[He] Spoke and rose to full height, sword in air, Then cleft the man's brow square between the temples Cutting his head in two…

— Virgil

“Overstimulated. Light, sound, touch, all had been amped up. He closed his eyes to shut out the excess information and tried to get his…

— Carol Shay Hornung

“Finally, mercifully, the spasms subsided, as the old man’s head lolled back, his mouth hanging open, taking in deep, ragged breaths of stale, recirculated…

— Joe DeRouen

“And while his fingers explored, his eyes stayed on mine, filling the silence, and in them I saw the piece of me that he…

— Kate Stewart

“Inside, a piece of him cracked; it was as though an emotion that had calcified into bone got tapped with a tiny hammer and…

— cris beam

“He stared at it. Something about the tension of his posture eased. His jaw tightened, then loosened; his eyes looked wet. "Maybe we gotta…

— Hollis Shiloh

“Inside him was a bitter, futile anger and a sadness that seemed to be choking him. It was finished. The period of agonizing waiting…

— Roderic Jeffries

“His presence silenced, if only for a few seconds, the crackling anxiety that made my blood grate against my bones and for a little…

— meg rosoff

“It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Steel shards, his eyes held hers. Breathless, Patience blinked up at him. His face was hard, a warrior's mask. Waves of anger and aggression…

— Stephanie Laurens

“He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner surface of…

— Alex Shakar

“His gaze held mine so long it felt as if he would never release it. And something deep inside me did not want him…

— Tess Oliver