Quote by Janet Frame

“I wondered how this misery would end. I was full of fear. I was afraid to tell others what I felt lest they would…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“She didnt know that i was dead inside, that i had ruled out the chance of joy ever again. For that night and every…

— dawn french

“It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next…

— Jennifer Egan

“I dwelled heavily on the image of me chipping away at the lock with a nail file and didn’t tell her about the gloves,…

— Ruth Ware

“All I could say was “I didn’t know. They never told me. I didn’t know.” It felt like a knife in my heart and…

— John Davis

“I soon discovered myself in a deserted alleyway. There was no one in sight. My heart dropped. I was sure that he had come…

— Gideon Rathbone

“I’d warned that fucking flea-bitten, sway-backed, hay-burning refugee from a glue factory that I had a gun and had no problem using it if…

— Tinnean

“I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare…

— Graham Greene

“Fortunately, by the time I'd gotten to the stairs I had finished gasping and stepping on dead people, so I was pretty prepared for…

— April White

“No wonder I'd always felt lost. I actually was. The knowledge felt terrible, but in a strange way, it also felt good. Now I…

— Lish McBride

“I felt myself increasingly unmoored from real life. it was as if the children were ropes tying me to the World. Without them, I…

— Tamar Cohen

“Though I would have died rather than told anyone, I was worried my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system…

— Donna Tartt