Quote by Peter Guralnick

“...but he was incapable of shame.He had no conscience or soul.No heart, either.That has broken and died years ago.The leftover pieces had petrified in…

— Charlotte Featherstone

“Zak felt himself drawing inward like a snail, pulling back all his vulnerable parts, which was just about everything, and hiding inside his shell.…

— Barbara Elsborg

“I saw on his face a glimpse of his past. The damage, the unhappiness and the pain, and I wondered what kind of skeletons…

— Cyma Rizwaan Khan

“The little kid in me roared. He wanted me to know he was right. I could trust no one. Everyone wanted to hurt us.…

— Debra Anastasia

“He looked like a rabbit about to bolt. And it roused the most sadistic instincts inside me. I wanted to make him squirm. To…

— Shayla Mist

“... he had never once been frightened of a living one before. They were too fragile, too easily broken and dismantled: They had bones…

— Lauren Oliver

“Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender…

— Sarah Sundin

“His jaw was tensed, but it was no longer the frightening expression he had in the cafeteria. He seemed sad. The deep, hopeless kind.”

— Jamie McGuire

“He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved…

— Nell Freudenberger

“He was up to his neck in it. He was breathing the air of its world, adapting to its gravity. The story's essence had…

— Haruki Murakami

“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

“It lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as into the mouth of a black tunnel. The trunk was only an…

— Ayn Rand