Quote by Mildred D. Taylor

“For you, Elisabeth.” He offered me the flute again. This time I took it. Despite the cold air, the instrument was warm, and felt…

— S. Jae-Jones

“I closed my eyes during a flute solo, wishing I could wrap the silvery sound around me like armor.”

— Jodi Meadows

“And while his fingers explored, his eyes stayed on mine, filling the silence, and in them I saw the piece of me that he…

— Kate Stewart

“He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered on the…

— Mervyn Peake

“I searched until I panted for breath, but could not find it. The solid stone structure was nowhere to be seen. The house was…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

“He thought of these years as another life within the one he had. As though it were a thing he was able to carry.…

— Paul Yoon

“That’s how I’d ended up lying flat on my back, Archer’s sword still clutched in my hand, my head aching. Maybe I could just…

— Rachel Hawkins

“Were you looking for this, Nik?” He took out a tiny triangular piece of plastic. His guitar pick. “My heart. You missed.”

— Brodi Ashton

“Something inside his chest unlocked--wildly, slowly, a peculiar sort of melting. He was lost. He was the thorn and the thistle, blown upon her…

— Shana Abé

“She realized that adventures, once they were over, were things that had to stay inside one--that no one else could quite understand.”

— Eva Ibbotson

“And as I looked at him, I suddenly felt, for the very first time in my life, utterly, entirely alone. That something was gone…

— Jim Butcher

“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It…

— Brandon Sanderson