First things Quote by Rachel Hawkins

“Mom perched on the edge of our sofa, her forehead etched with a line of concern I'd grown to know well. It was the…

— Gemma Halliday

“I began to feel like I was wearing a sign on my forehead that said FUCKED UP in big neon letters.”

— Marya Hornbacher

“When I got to my own face, I found myself staring at it, so bright with dark all around it, like it was someone…

— Sarah Dessen

“​Seeing Dottie and me in that picture, smiling with melty ice cream cones in our hands and the drips running down into our fingers,…

— Amy Sargent Swank

“Her teeth and lips are tinted purple from the Kool-Aid. Mine are probably purple too, but I can’t see them. You can’t see your…

— Emily Austin

“The chalk dust was everywhere. On her pants. All over her shirt. She looked like she’d fallen into a vat of 1980s eye shadow.…

— Chelsea Cain

“You could viddy it all right, all of it, very clear—tables, the stereo, the lights, the sharps and the malchicks—but it was like some…

— Anthony Burgess

“Abruptly then it began to rain, I heard the swish of it behind me and turned in time to see it coming fast along…

— John Banville

“They (...) call what I have an invisible illness, but I often wonder if they're really looking. Beyond the science stuff. It doesn't bleed…

— Louise Gornall

“My eyes stray back to Eric Cameron, a.k.a. Mirror Boy. It might or might not be him. The face is the same shape and…

— Apryl Baker

“I can remember neing in high school, walking through Central Park on a chilly day, and the sound of stamping on the crispness of…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“In a polished surface of metal I happen to notice my reflected face; it wears a pale, beaten lonely look, eyes looking out at…

— Anna Kavan