Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

“Things were not as they seemed. The known world was shifting, reforming. Everything he’d taken as a given, a fact, as real and unquestioned,…

— Louise Penny

“Although there was much I wanted to say, I knew that I should not. His mind and heart were out of alignment, and only…

— Dean Koontz

“And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was an endless…

— Alexandra Bracken

“But as always, the distance between them gave way to a need to be closer.”

— Galt Niederhoffer

“Irremediably, little by little, the distance between them became an insurmountable abyss.”

— Zøe Haslie

“He was a man of great depth but of limited breadth, so that while he knew very little, he knew a great deal about…

— Michael Flynn

“They were still looming at opposite ends of the perspective, each with an absurd pretence of not having the other on his mind, which…

— Charles Dickens

“...his ridiculousness was a form of vitality.”

— Rachel Kushner

“...it occurred to him that maybe the world wasn't so bad after all... gradually details he hadn't noticed began to come into focus... Almost…

— James Dashner

“But there was something at once chilling and off-putting in the sudden distance that crept between us in the most unexpected moments. It was…

— André Aciman

“...he was by no means expansive, and talked little indeed, but not from shyness or a sullen unsociability; quite the contrary, from something different,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Nothing felt right. The whole world seemed loose and pliable. He couldn't shake a gut-wrenching feeling that reality's underpinnings were breaking away.”

— Kent Wayne