Charles Quote by Marisha Pessl

“Once Charles arrived, Franny would start laughing the way she had when she was twenty-four, and the rest of them could start setting one…

— Emma Straub

“Charles’ conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody’s ideas trudged past, in their workaday dress, provoking no emotion, no laughter,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Charlie can't keep you from visiting your mother. She still has primary custody.' 'Nobody has custody of me. I'm an adult.' He flashed a…

— Stephenie Meyer

“Charlie waves me on, then leans an elbow on his chair. Propping his head up with a finger by his temple. He's pissed at…

— Krista Ritchie

“I turn to see Ansel leaning against the door frame. His eyes swept over the room. "Whoa, Hurricane Naomi strikes, leaving no survivers.”

— Andrea Cremer

“Upstairs Margaret said abruptly, 'I suppose it starts to happen first in the suburbs,' and when Brad said, 'What starts to happen?' she said…

— Shirley Jackson

“There are survivors of disasters whose accounts never begin with the tornado warning or the captain announcing engine failure, but always much earlier in…

— Emma Cline

“...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that to Mouse,…

— Jim Butcher

“For me, life has always been the storm. The storm and watching from the window for the thing that could stop it, even if…

— Sarah Pinborough

“windows of his neighbors’ houses, very nearly convinced that at least one of them must be watching him, wondering where he thought he was…

— Brian Harmon

“she’d had a nervous breakdown. Johnny and Jimmy enjoyed the trappings”

— Adam Higginbotham

“John Belushi had that aura of someone who doesn't have a lot of time - that's why he was a little frantic about everything.…

— Corey Seymour