Chance Quote by Roberto Bolaño

“Great, the English had sent her to her death accompanied by two village idiots. Not that it mattered anymore how her life ended, but…

— E.B. Brown

“At least Madame Selena had her own building…about sixteen inches from the edge of the highway, but still. And she had a turban. Say…

— Stacey Kade

“Murder could happen, she thought as she drove to Cop Central, to anyone, anywhere, anytime.”

— J.D. Robb

“If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.”

— Miranda July

“They were just little families cooking beans and planting and hunting a deer now and then, and having babies and laying their old folks…

— Nancy E. Turner

“I was just thinking. Once I get home, we’ll be enemies again. My people would shoot you if you ever came around. And that--”…

— Catherine Anderson

“When asked why she had tried to kill herself, she said only, "It was a mistake.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“It was an ordinary spring day in Istanbul, a long and leaden afternoon like so many others, when she discovered, with a hollowness in…

— Elif Shafak

“Not one of the European rulers would put himself about in the attempt to save Marie Antoinette, so that Mercy scornfully declared: “They would…

— Stefan Zweig

“She had a slow, deliberate way of walking -- as if she had once been startled into precipitate action and had regretted it." "…

— Shirley Hazzard

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far…

— Elizabeth Bowen