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“In the sounds of the night Aria heard footsteps, far off and faint, but she recognized them instantly. She shot into the darkness, letting…

— Veronica Rossi

“Roar leaned across the table and smiled at her seductively, his dark hair falling into his eyes. 'When you say everything happens in the…

— Veronica Rossi

“Ariadne in the labyrinth. The most alive of worlds, human beings with the tenderest flesh, are made of marble. I strew devastation as I…

— Jean Genet

“It wasn't all misery. On one of our halts we lay spreadeagled on the ice and stared up at a sky blazing with the…

— Beryl Bainbridge

“And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have…

— Joseph von Eichendorff

“And a blank page was quite beautiful on its own, she'd found. There were already so many words, so many voices in the world.…

— Deanna Fei

“What makes you Arianna? If we could distill you and try to extract your essence, what is it that makes you you?”

— Vishen Lakhiani

“She could not understand why this world, which was so full of beauty and wonder, had to also be so full of horrors.”

— Jeanne DuPrau

“In a single, silent moment, his rage, his fear, his humiliation and helplessness, had fallen away. That morning, he believed, he was a new…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“I felt as if the world I lived in was only a facade - that beneath its skin, a darker world raged and rampaged.…

— Susan Hubbard

“alone with the endless morning, and knew that the world was beautiful beyond naming.”

— Claire North

“She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The…

— Virginia Woolf