Ground zero Quote by Rachel Gibson

“She reminded him of (...) all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice…

— Joseph Heller

“And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode or who…

— Margaret Atwood

“...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a…

— Nora Roberts

“She tasted like buried treasure and swing sets and coffee. She tasted the way fireworks felt, like something you could get close to but…

— Robyn Schneider

“And the general shot my sister. I could not look at her, but I remember the sound of when she hit the ground. I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I knew we were all thinking of her, dead and laughless, cold, no longer Alaska. The idea that Alaska didn’t exist still stunned me…

— John Green

“They snatched the girl off her tire swing in the backyard and dragged her into the woods; her body made a shallow track in…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“She tasted like buried treasure and swing swets and coffee. She tasted the way fireworks felt, like something you could get close to but…

— Robyn Schneider

“Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one…

— T.A. Grey

“It was cold, wet . . . overall pretty traumatic . . . but . . . such is the life of the adventurer.”

— Luke Pearson

“Why, after all, did she do these things? Why seek pinnacles and stand drenched in fire? Might it consume her anyhow! Burn her to…

— Virginia Woolf

“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves…

— Renee Ahdieh