Quote by L.J. Smith

“It wasn't pain—exactly. It was sensation, distilled. The shock of it snapped her head forward again, and she watched him, panting through the clash…

— Kit Rocha

“...she had developed such a quiet comfort in his presence, like all the hurt of the world couldn't touch her. Yet, every once in…

— Sibylla Matilde

“She closes her eyes, and I can see the moisture. She’s deep-breathing again, and I notice her hands are clutched around the opposing wrists,…

— Jasinda Wilder

“Unconsciously, one hand crept down to her belly, where an ache was beginning to blossom.”

— Celeste Ng

“But she missed simple things, parents' birthdays, a rug underfoot, nights when she didn't have to sleep in a zipped bag. She began to…

— Don DeLillo

“While it sounds interesting, it was really only a headache pressed between covers.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Quite unselfconsciously she ran her hands along her neck, all along the sides and then to the back to feel the stiffnesses, and though…

— Edna O'Brien

“It transformed and sharpened everything she saw, smelled, felt. She could hear the ping of water moving through the pipes and smell metal in…

— Dennis Lehane

“Her forehead fell to rest on the tile, her eyes burning, flooding, overflowing with the pain he seemed unable to express and she couldn’t…

— Catherine Mann

“The pulsations of the arteries along my fingers pressing across hers, told her what was passing within me: she look’d down—a silence of some…

— Laurence Sterne

“She felt it all right at the back of her throat, like a bomb – or a tiger – sitting on the base of…

— Rainbow Rowell

“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