Quote by Scarlett Thomas

“her knees, which looked, in the faint blue light, as though they'd been carved by water from a bar of soap.”

— Charles D'Ambrosio

“She felt raw, a painting that wasn't dry yet. One hard nudge and she'd smear all over the place.”

— Ashley Herring Blake

“This summer there was a different flavor to her. Libby noticed it right away. Like a song she couldn’t place. There was something slippery…

— Sarah Moriarty

“All I need is time, four walls, and a lock I can turn to make sure Libby and I aren’t disturbed until I’ve shown…

— Lili Valente

“I went, and knelt, and scooped my hand As if to drink, into the brook, And a faint figure seemed to stand Above me,…

— Thomas Hardy

“I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.”

— Peter Heller

“She looked just like a painting dying to speak.”

— Aeschylus

“She saw, yet again, that her friend's compliments were just bits of art and artifice. They were paper swans, cunningly folded so that they…

— Marie Rutkoski

“Something Rich and Strange She was less of what she had been, the blue rubbed from her eyes, flesh freed from the chandelier of…

— Ron Rash

“I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene…

— Stefan Bachmann

“It was just an ordinary night. He didn’t think anything extraordinary would happen. Until it did. Turning a corner onto the bustling night time…

— L.H. Cosway

“I found her standing on tiptoes, scanning a shelf that was indeed next to a painting of a dude on a horse. I thought…

— Rachel Hawkins