Quote by Karen Booth

“I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The chaos in my head spun itself into a silk of silence. I had distilled myself to the immediacy of hand, blade, blood, flesh.”

— Caroline Kettlewell

“He didn’t come into my life gradually or delicately. He swept in like a wildfire, consuming every single thought and word and thing until…

— Rachel Higginson

“He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything…

— Joseph Heller

“I had witnessed his pain in motion; the way he had stroked over the sea fueled by something so similar to what fueled me.…

— Marni Mann

“For he reached the conclusion that everything he had ever seen, or had ever done, or had ever dreamed of doing would in the…

— Chester Himes

“And as I looked at him, I suddenly felt, for the very first time in my life, utterly, entirely alone. That something was gone…

— Jim Butcher

“It struck me as odd that it had taken me so long to reach a feeling of sureness that there was something in me…

— Marion Milner

“My whole life, ever since I could remember, I’d always hated the thought that no one could ever know what anyone else was feeling…

— Amy Gentry

“I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I had found him again, and with him, my world had become completely unwound. It was messy and impulsive, naïve and irrational, and somehow,…

— Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds

“My coffee was steaming, and I hunched over it while I watched the demon. His long fingers were interlaced about the white soup-bowl mug…

— Kim Harrison