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“He felt crude and detestable”

— William Burroughs Jr

“He was gripped by what he could think of only as numbness, though he knew it was a feeling compounded of emotions so deep…

— John Williams

“He had dulled his craving for verbal truth and cared chiefly for truth of mood.”

— E.M. Forster

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton

“In spite of the momentary desire he had just been feeling for company of any sort, on being actually spoken to he felt immediately…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He felt nervous and excited an happy and kind of filled with dread, all at the same time. It was the most emotion he'd…

— James Patterson

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather

“His warmth enveloped me. I was caught in him, absolutely ensnared by all that he was. I shivered as his words –his heated breath-…

— Paloma Beck

“He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.”

— Patrick Süskind

“His eyes darted over the surface of my face. Like a moth to a blaze he was hesitant, seeming to crave my warmth but…

— Shawn Kirsten Maravel

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“His touch brought with it the strangest sense of relief — as if I’d been in pain and that pain had suddenly ceased.”

— Stephenie Meyer