Quote by Markus Zusak

“She looked like a real woman in a city of mannequins.”

— Marshall Thornton

“The other dolls sat upon the shelf and looked straight before them, for it would never do to let grown-up men know that dolls…

— Johnny Gruelle

“To Amalie people were like dolls.”

— Willow Rose

“Then my gaze slid over the people to the blaze of green beyond the diaphanous curtains, and I felt as if I were sitting…

— Sylvia Plath

“I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store. The figures around me weren't people, but shop dummies,…

— Sylvia Plath

“Somehow, though, neither her clothes nor her features seemed to matter—they were the adornments of a painting or a picture, not the real thing.…

— Benedict Jacka

“But I couldn't get the image out of my head of the beast strapped to the table, Father humming while the candle wax slowly…

— Megan Shepherd

“In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back. I struck…

— H.G. Wells

“It was those dolls...so strange and disarming. Matrona had never seen their like before.”

— Charlie N. Holmberg

“And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she…

— Natsuo Kirino

“But it was something else, too, that I wanted to extend: the taut and pleasant silence in the car, the stale heat raising vapours…

— Emma Cline

“Part of me, a really bad, objectifying, and dirty part of me wanted to stand them up next to each other and make them…

— Rachel Higginson