Baked goods Quote by K. Velk

“I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside.”

— Vanora Bennett

“The crying wailed, somewhere beneath the planks. Several sweeps of the light showed that the cellar was otherwise deserted. Though the face mouthed behind…

— Ramsey Campbell

“He was finally able to bask in his own existence; and he found it splendid.”

— Patrick Süskind

“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“She had felt a kind of sadness, looking at the spoons. Spoons that had been lying in their case for perhaps sixty years without…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“He remembered that right after that, he had stolen a loaf of bread from a delicatessen counter and had taken it home and devoured…

— Patricia Highsmith

“He found solace in what he wrote. It was an attempt to discover who he was at the moment.”

— Brian Krans

“The deepest sorrow, he thought. Where the only way to survive is to excavate everything.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered on the…

— Mervyn Peake

“I started grasping at moments that weren't misery. Slowly, slowly, I found them.”

— Kate Milford

“The formless aching hunger that suffused his being wasn't there like it used to be. There was something sharper in it, like the great…

— S.P. Wayne

“As soon as he seized happiness it dispersed and reappeared somewhere else. Like Fillory, like everything good, it never lasted. What a terrible thing…

— Lev Grossman