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“One time, your heart almost slipped away on a river barge. Your hands seemed to claw the sky. I’m sorry. No one else made…

— Richard Jackson

“I landed in the living room of the cabin with the gracefulness of a drunken person, stumbling and banging my knee on the corner…

— Jessica Sorensen

“The story was clearly over, as in juggling when the ball you throw up finds the moment to come down, hesitates as if it…

— E.L. Doctorow

“He grabbed me with both hands and began pushing me backward. I lost my balance. The ledge was at an angle, and it was…

— Axel Avian

“With a last ditch attempt, I shoved once more on the wooden door and to my utter surprise, it abruptly flew open. As I…

— Katrina Kahler

“Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“And then I sagged forward, utterly spent, emptied…light as air. I felt like I could have floated up and out…slipping through the open window…

— Josh Lanyon

“I jumped up and ran after the words that trailed like the dangling string from an air ball, up and up, from branch to…

— Virginia Woolf

“I was thinking about the rubbish, the flapping plastic in the branches, the shore-line of odd stuff caught along the fencing, and I half…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“There was a crash like the falling parts of a dream fashioned out of warped glass, mirrors, and crystal prisms.”

— Ray Bradbury

“I kept wanting to sit and rest, to curl up in a ball and think of nothing else. No, no, no. The light. I…

— Richelle Mead

“I sprinted down the alley, not fast enough to avoid the cold water rolling down my back, with a childlike shriek. I caught his…

— Veronica Roth