Quote by Jennifer Harlow

“He hadn't moved. All the crazy-hot activity in the kitchen—waitresses going in and out, cooks going back and forth, the constant thump of barbecue…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“The Field of Mars, June, death, life, white nights, Dasha, Dimitri, the all came… And went. But there Alexander still was, standing on that…

— Paullina Simons

“I sat and looked up at the blue sky and across at the blank windows for a long time. A woman I’d once cared…

— Robert B. Parker

“I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight. The dead travel fast, and by short cuts unknown to ordinary coolies. I…

— Rudyard Kipling

“Suddenly, I found myself running along the rooftop, leaping and falling. Falling until I caught the zip-line handle and then I was zooming, flying…

— Maya Bode

“I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic…

— Greg Iles

“My insides twist in a flurry of excitement, and I stifle the laugh welling inside. Parker Whalen knows I’m alive.”

— Katie Klein

“The whole world is a charnel house. We always make love on corpses.”

— Andrew Wheeler

“I heard a shout on the horizon, the sobs of someone who perhaps had died a century earlier in the room.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Outside, a cry fell through the night like a dying star.”

— Joss Alexander

“As I stand in the elevator, dazed, I realise that a massive winning lottery ticket chunk of my future has somehow found me here…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“Dude!” Rudy exclaims, thundering out of his room like the Odyssey Cyclops leaving his sheep cave. The walls shake.”

— Hannah Johnson