Quote by R.K. Lilley

“The horror and venom that infused her final word was practically visible, dripping from her mouth and running down to the floor like so…

— Seanan McGuire

“She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !! Then SHe went and left him restlessly numb. He was her painkiller. SHe,…

— Self

“as if he were trying to escape the smell of her words as if the air from her talking came into his mouth and…

— Michael Ondaatje

“I was torturing her. Guilt was her poison, and I was pouring it down her throat.”

— Rebecca Donovan

“But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded…

— Sue Miller

“For her too, she had words on her lips, which died unborn, lay in her mind and turned to poison.”

— Cora Sandel

“It seemed to me that I was suddenly in the presence of incosolable, unavoidable, and immense pain. The thought of that death hunted me…

— Hélène Berr

“...the poison was in the wound, and the wound remained ever open..”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Gradually, she had realized that this was just another wound that would heal if she didn't hold it close, but released the pain and…

— Iris Johansen

“She felt a swollen green sac of poison pulsing somewhere inside her -- bitter stuff, hateful as hemlock. She was afraid that if that…

— Stephen King

“For a heartbeat, the silence peeled back long enough for that question to worm its way into her skull, into her skin, into her…

— Sarah J. Maas

“The pain remained. And the fear. That she was so different. A monster.”

— Lisa Jackson