Small towns Quote by Peter Straub

“But I look at the man on the screen, I feel my grandfather’s hands on me, and I know. Despite what I’ve trained for,…

— Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

“Like so much else, these years before the murder come down to what it always comes down to with Ricky: What do you see…

— Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

“I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing:…

— Marsha Norman

“Not just Ricky, all my past relationships with men had been like a spate of pesky diseases—each more formidable than the other. It was…

— Shuchi Singh Kalra

“I emerged into the sticky-hot evening to find Ricky smoking on the hood of his battered car. Something about his mud-encrusted boots and the…

— Ransom Riggs

“. I can still see Ricky on that roof... the sunlight shining in his round dark eyes, eyes dark as the onyx stones on…

— José N. Harris

“Suddenly, power filled me. I swear I’d never felt so happy and overwhelmed with pure bliss in my entire life. I didn’t feel tired…

— Maya Bode

“I ran into the house, crumpled the pack of cigarettes and cried to myself. I cried for Ricky. I cried because I felt like…

— José N. Harris

“Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone./Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline./18 and life you got it.”

— Skid Row

“the landing the old man started to murmur, “Cold, cold water,” but neither one of us took much notice. “You know I nearly got…

— Tom Upton

“I noticed how utterly indifferent the passengers were to what they were doing, namely, flying through the air. A glance out of the window…

— Glen Duncan

“Before I fell asleep, eventually, was thinking when I was a small kid how I'd try to imagine the end of the century and…

— Don DeLillo