Time Quote by R.L. Griffin

“She could feel her mind pulling loose like knitting, the neat stitches of her artificial days unravelling to become one mangled thread.”

— Frances Hardinge

“The threads of these thoughts trailed after her throughout the rest of the day, like loose ends on a fabric, needing to either be…

— Marilyn Brant

“Her glittering nails and dangling earrings made her seem fragile sometimes, like something delicate, but then I'd find her standing alone on the roof…

— Amanda Sun

“She untied her ropes, her frazzled oily grimy ropes that held her down into the littered marshlands of a life too long lived in…

— Ella M. Kaye

“She was wired into my heart. Twisted and kinked and threaded right through.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“I was about to close in on her again when, to my confusion, she reached into her mouth. When she withdrew her hand, she…

— Bella Forrest

“A lock of her hair escaped its pin and rode out on the wind, one more insubordinate part of her reaching for him.”

— Cecilia Grant

“He gives her a lump of grief that has hardened at the bottom of the canvas pocket at his waist. He gives her a…

— Tina May Hall

“She gave herself up to the waves of the storm. If they drowned, it would be together, a shattered vessel on the sea, a…

— Erin Kellison

“She had the feeling that if she went home, she might never get away. She thought of birds caught in nets. There was something…

— Alice Hoffman

“As her husband held her close, she could feel the pulse of other choices, other lives, opening up beneath her. Her past crackled behind…

— Dan Chaon

“I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the…

— Connie May Fowler