Alive Quote by Malala Yousafzai

“It was a woman who put that bullet in me. Did you know?” “One cannot tell from looking at the wound, as it happens.”

— Joanna Bourne

Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she…

— Rick Riordan

Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back…

— Waris Dirie

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air…

— Anita Shreve

She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and…

— John Green

She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and…

— Truman Capote

I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone…

— Alice Sebold

I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the…

— Jodi Picoult

I lifted my right foot to step up into the bus and collided head on with an invisible force that entered my awareness like…

— Suzanne Segal

I watched my head rolling on the floor. It landed face up and a big tear came out of one eye.

— Shirley MacLaine

My mom told me that when the car struck me, I landed 80 feet off the road. When they found me, I was curled…

— Sara Evans

“A scream starts in my gut—I can feel the cut, smell the dirt, leaves in my hair. I don’t remember passing out. David says…

— Laurie Halse Anderson