Summer Heat Quote by Jeri Smith-Ready

“Lucy just took her hand and smacked herself in the forehead with it. I think that meant she was constipated. So, I just left…

— Zack Zombie Books

“She carried a scabbedover wound on her hip where her mate had bitten her two weeks before somewhere in the mountains of Sonora. He’d…

— Cormac McCarthy

“What was she supposed to do, reach in and start pulling stuff out? Shit, what was she doing, why was she doing this? How…

— Stacia Kane

“He scissored his legs, pulled hers out from under her, and brought her to the ground. Then, on some stupid impulse, he rolled on…

— Dana Marton

“bored, the strikes almost lazy. The blades made an echoing clang that reverberated up her spine, sending tiny vibrations down the arches of her…

— Francesca Vance

“The little shards of sleep that they allowed her turned into razors, slicing at her wits.”

— George R.R. Martin

“at the floor, cursing her clumsiness. As he returned, and started to sweep the shards of glass out of the thin pile carpet, she…

— Jane Isaac

“Tool glanced over his shoulder, looking to see if the girl might have changed her mind, but she was gone. Swallowed up by the…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“I left the bed as she had left it, unmade and rumpled, coverlets awry, so that her body's print might rest still warm beside…

— Pierre Louÿs

“He went to her head like a shot of whiskey but tasted a whole lot better. He sent the same fire curling into the…

— Christine Warren

“She was a clay pot, and she’d been broken in pieces. There used to be something inside her, and now that it had spilled…

— Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

“She reached into an alabaster box and pulled out a violet cigarette that also exactly matched her eyes. Some people just don't know when…

— Gary K. Wolf