Isobel Quote by Kelly Creagh

“She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee in the…

— Diane Setterfield

“This time the skin seperates and she blinks her way back into the universe, watches the valley fold open, the blood seaming up along…

— Martha O'Connor

“...she stood back and wiped the sweat-sting from her eyes. The air was clean. Her hands brown with dirt. Pride surged through her, raw…

— Anthony Marra

“I’VE never seen such a look of mortal agony on a human face before. She screamed quite a bit before she died, and the…

— Robert Bloch

“It started at her mouth with just a wobble, a tremble of her lips. Then her hands joined in, fingers shaking until she had…

— Kennedy Ryan

“The coverlet warmed her legs. The firelight wobbled over the pages. Maelyn sank into the world the words wrapped around her, hushing everything that…

— Anita Valle

“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was…

— Kate Chopin

“She had not had the relief of amnesia. She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first…

— Diane Setterfield

“Her emotions were so raw that the hated tears were always just below the surface, waiting to escape at the most inopportune times. She…

— Laurann Dohner

“She wanted to feel like everything was in front of her again, like life was stretched out, wild and open at her feet. She…

— Grant Ginder

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

“Every emotion that she’d felt during the journey paled against the fear. It was now as much a part of her as any of…

— Angela Marsons