Quote by Émile Zola

“There she stood, by herself, amidst all her treasures, with a whole horde of men grovelling at her feet. Like those dreaded monsters of…

— Émile Zola

“Then he left her there, standing along, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.”

— Kristin Hannah

“She felt as if the grave stones were whispering those names to her as she walked past... Those stones that bore no names seemed…

— Cornelia Funke Inkdeath

“Sitting in the shadows, with a killer, in an empty building, gazing at the corpse of another killer. When had her life grown so…

— Lindsay Buroker

“...her dark eyes were like twin entrances to two deep caves. Nothing lived in those caves. Maybe something had, once upon a time. There…

— John D. MacDonald

“They grow up twisted, crippled, crazy. She would probably be taken and killed. She wouldn’t even be buried. They’d be worried”

— Lauren Oliver

“She stared at her father's lifeless body, and the thoughts she could not voice dissolved into her blood, where they would stay with her…

— Cixin Liu

“He imprisoned the rest of her body by the simple expediency of lying down on top of her.”

— Thea Harrison

“How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much - so many moments, so many people and things,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“She felt it again—that familiar shiver, as if a psychotic snowman had crept up behind her and was breathing down her neck. She turned,…

— Rick Riordan

“She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.”

— Caroline B. Cooney

“There was something so unreal about her, sitting there. I couldn’t even see her face; couldn’t discern the outline of her figure. Even then…

— Tahereh Mafi