Bed Quote by Leslie Marmon Silko

He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer…

— Franz Kafka

“Now, on the contrary, here he was , plunged into a whiteness so luminous, so total, that it swallowed up rather than absorbed, not…

— José Saramago

“His stillness was commanding. I felt myself getting whiter by the second. What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to…

— Don DeLillo

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply…

— Dan Brown

There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now…

— Etgar Keret

“…It was this white garment of mourning which he still wore, the white mourning of surgical gowns so much more significant than black, since…

— Michel Leiris

The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcanoe. There was…

— Jonathan Stroud

“His eyes were closing again, all of their own accord, so that he lay in red, pain-filled darkness. It occured to him that he…

— Herbie Brennan

The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to…

— Cormac McCarthy

“There was a hole in his chest where his mood should have been, and the darkness was slowly settling in on his brain, or-..…

— Raven Elliot O'Connor

“He thought of nothing. Some thoughts or fragments of thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated before his mind--faces of people he had…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky