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“And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a cloud carried…

— Arthur Golden

“I listened for a while to the reassuring sound of that boy breathing near me. I watched the slight movement of his eyelids as…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“View, Pigeon,” he said, mumbling something inaudible before his breathing returned to slow and deep. I couldn’t help but watch him sleep; knowing he…

— Jamie McGuire

“I looked at him through swollen eyes. The light glowed around him and he looked like he was floating. He was a glowing creature…

— Heather Anastasiu

“Then, as the storm burst round him, he rose slowly to his feet and turned his closed eyes toward the Sea. And the world…

— W.E.B. DuBois

“He thought he could hear the hum of the universe as he sat there. The airwaves of God, maybe, that kept the whole lunatic…

— Douglas Clegg

“His silence wasn’t empty—it hummed with something unspoken, something that brushed against my soul like a soft current, altering the very rhythm of my…

— Alma Brooke

“Sometimes I thought of Him as a cloud in the sky;... sometimes as simply an enormous white light. Whatever the image, I would imagine…

— Ayad Akhtar

“At first he didn't know where he was, whose voice it was. He must have been asleep. And waking suddenly, like that, you woke…

— Rupert Thomson

“All night, I talked to other people. I didn't look in his direction, but I always knew where he was. I was painfully aware…

— Jenny Han

“…round the back of my little heart I could hear a lonely breeze whistling away everything I cared about.”

— Deborah Kay Davies

“Wait, I almost shouted, but didn’t, and that would be my burden to bear. Instead, I stood on the curb and I watched him…

— Katie Cotugno