Quote by Jim Dodge

“No Surprises A heart that’s full up like a landfill, a job that slowly kills you, bruises that won’t heal. You look so tired-unhappy,…

— Radiohead

“Occasionally my mother called from California. My parents had hurried and difficult conversations. She asked after Buckley and Linsey and Holiday. She asked how…

— Alice Sebold

“In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, all is quiet. In the…

— Alan Paton

“A lot of things in the house were broken or forgotten: the kitchen clock stopped, a closet doorknob coming off in my hand. The…

— Emma Cline

“A brief rustling that broke off short, as if startled at itself, then deadly silence, that agonising, watchful hush, fraught with its own betrayal,…

— Gustav Meyrink

“On an impulse he went into the room and stood before the window, pushing aside the sheer curtain to watch the snow, now nearly…

— Kim Edwards

“the distant whisper of the creek as it runs between the roots of trees so much older than I am that they probably never…

— Seanan McGuire

“A crack of a tree limb and falling foliage forced me to open my eyes. A tree fell right above my head, frightened birds…

— Brenda Pandos

“One left; things shifted in one's absence; one returned to something else. Time frustrated all. There was no sneaking past its rough guard, even…

— Gish Jen

“In a way, the very success which the Boss laid on Tiny was his revenge on Tiny, for every time the Boss put his…

— Robert Penn Warren

“There was no sound but it own for falls and the crackling of the flames behind us. No rustle came from the trees, no…

— Leigh Bardugo

“Older Scout: [narrating] Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us…

— Harper Lee