Quote by Ralph Ellison

“[...] to you, unknown corporeal interlocutor who I hope is just kind of out there somehow knowing my thoughts and undertaking your own heroic…

— Matthew Sharpe

“This then is my story. I have reread it. It has bits of marrow sticking to it, and blood, and beautiful bright-green flies. At…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with…

— Gillian Flynn

“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

“In having a purpose. I could feel it hardening up my bones and thickening my blood. I felt older and smarter than anyone else…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“It was like this blackness that crept into the corners of my life until everything was grey and dirty. My insides felt burnt out,…

— Tanya Byrne

“I’m not a human. I’m a piece of machinery. I don’t need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead. That’s what I told…

— Haruki Murakami

“I called no one, and no one called me. I was suffocating with loneliness. The pain was almost physical. I felt like tearing myself…

— Cat Clarke

“Every single part of me ached, sort of like the universe was exploding inside my skull, or like my body was tearing itself apart…

— Jess Rothenberg

“It felt like there was a dark spot in my heart. Like a bruise. And it was getting deeper and wider with every lie…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

“It's weird to have something that's mine-not-Ma's. Everything else is both of ours. I guess my body is mine and the ideas that happen…

— Emma Donoghue