Money Quote by Jennifer Foehner Wells

“Monkeys had escaped the zoo and were climbing over a house in her neighborhood.”

— Bryan Chick

“She had spent the night planning and now that it was time, she hardly thought at all. It was as if she were standing…

— Celeste Ng

“She waited until she finished todo it, resisting the urge to play with herself. But dammit, when they got home she'd wank herself like…

— Tymber Dalton

“She wanted to tell them that whatever happened, whatever they chose, one day they would have to come awake, everyone would have to stand…

— Madeleine Thien

“She could've slept then. She wanted to. Sleep was blind, it was deaf, and it would take her away from this room and these…

— Marie Rutkoski

“and it was a relief when they went to bed. For now she need not think about anybody.”

— Virginia Woolf

“But supposed she had a sudden urge to see their faces and turned to look at them - what would she see? Probably she…

— Aiko Kitahara

“The group of people in front of her was jovial and paid her no attention. The group behind was much the same. She was…

— Andre Alexis

“[...] because she wanted to be alone while surrounded by people.”

— Yaa Gyasi

“She lay there with her eyes closed, as if sleep were a shy creature that might venture out if she played dead. But every…

— Frances Hardinge

“But even thinking that brought on an incredible isolation, a suspicion she'd always had, she didn't belong anywhere, she was going to outlive everyone…

— Philipp Meyer

“It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a…

— Lauren Oliver