Quote by James Rollins

“A man walked in long strides through the darkness toward them. Nothing but a dark silhouette, shadow against shadow, he walked down the alley…

— Pamela Clare

“There was a crash. Ceiling panels rained down, lights exploding. They had run from the building, had run through the courtyard, and there were…

— Hugh Howey

“He looked back at the stairs. The man he had stabbed wasn’t moving. His dark skin had taken on the gray pallor of death,…

— Andrew Warren

“A big gloomy space was piled with bags, boxes, suitcases, parcels, umbrellas. There were a few shelves but no apparent order. Some of the…

— Tim Parks

“Then, with the barricades complete, the posts assigned, the muskets loaded, the lookouts placed, alone in these fearful streets in which there were now…

— Victor Hugo

“There was no ground-floor — its ground-floor belonged to a house in the next court, and the front door opened direct upon a flight…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“I see my skeleton walking down the street now. I’m walking behind it. Our feet touch the ground at the same time. I am…

— Ma Jian

“On the street, men appeared to me like mad ghosts, old skeletons out of joint, whose bones, badly strung together, were falling to the…

— Octave Mirbeau

“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

“There were people dying everywhere getting massacred in every town and village, there were people being picked up and thrown into dark jails in…

— Mirza Waheed

“And suddenly, in the place of the woman-shape made of shadow, there was something else. Something huge, something ugly. Linay flung up both hands.…

— Erin Bow

“the shadow from my body creating a window in the reflection, a hole in the room where an empty man stood.”

— Nathan Lowell