Misery loves company Quote by R.D. Ronald

“Misery was a creeping thing, like the dew settling on grass or the cold fingers of frost meeting me in my bed at night…

— Kat Dunn

“Suddenly the bridge was filled with intense warmth, Will had lit the fire. Everyone immediately scurried over to it, with the exception of Scott.…

— Julia Barkey

“It wasn't all misery. On one of our halts we lay spreadeagled on the ice and stared up at a sky blazing with the…

— Beryl Bainbridge

“Sometimes, when I was sitting in the Crimson Cabaret on a rainy night, I thought of myself as occupying a waiting room for the…

— Thomas Ligotti

“It was an evening of torment, and I remember only one other thing about it. At some point after everyone was asleep, I wandered…

— Arthur Golden

“I had nothing to feel guilty about. I had no one to answer to. I could look back upon my short life with Scott…

— Vee Hoffman

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.”

— Jalaluddin Rumi

“It tasted of twilight and mist, moonlight and frost, emptiness and longing.”

— Julie Kagawa

“And so I sat in the centre of this old city that I loved, which itself sat at the bottom of a tiny island.…

— Hanif Kureishi

“We remember though all the firelit glow Of a great hearth's gleam and glare, And we looked for a space at each happy face…

— Caris Brooke

“He watched the squares of buttery light inside the houses, and people going about their business. He thought of how they would settle in…

— Rachel Joyce