Dark Quote by Lisa Henry

“At first he didn't know where he was, whose voice it was. He must have been asleep. And waking suddenly, like that, you woke…

— Rupert Thomson

“Even when he was gone, some fragment of his spirit lingered behind.”

— Stephanie Perkins

“It was never possible for him to be where he was. For as long as he lived, he was somewhere else, between here and…

— Paul Auster

“Absent- that was what he was: so absent from everything most densely real and near to those about him that it sometimes startled him…

— Edith Wharton

“In front of him, nothing. He had a sudden glimpse of what he had considered invisible. The end of the world.”

— Alessandro Baricco

“He said nothing; there was no expression on his face at all. His eyelids were hooded, and I could almost feel the way he…

— Alexandra Bracken

“He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.”

— Arthur Golden

“He seemed horribly accepting of where he was, almost as if a way out seemed so impossible that he was just sitting out the…

— Jessica Thompson

“...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps we all…

— Pete Dexter

“He thought he’d lived through everything. Only now did he realise he’d merely existed.”

— Dianna Hardy

“He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The…

— Lois Lowry

“He readied himself to let go, to plunge in, to begin the swim out into the farther cold, out into the terrible, terrible freedom…

— Patrick Ness