Deryn-sharp Quote by Scott Westerfeld

“He was adventurer good-looking - you know, the muscular, rugged, "I get punched in the face a lot" type.”

— Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

“He has about him still a kind of terrible beauty, as dangerously beguiling as the grandeur of a storm rushing across the sea.”

— Tad Williams

“He felt as though he were hailing a ship.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“his body break into heaving sobs, his small face smeared into the dirt, his arms clutching at his bruised abdomen. I couldn’t look”

— Tahereh Mafi

“...and then quite suddenly I found that I had no rider, that I had no weight on my back, and that I was alone…

— Michael Morpurgo

“Everything he did was a physical thing.  When he spoke, my bones ached.  When he breathed, I felt it in my veins and on…

— Tyra Lynn

“He was always so happy when he returned that I wondered why he did it, why he tortured himself by watching a bruised world…

— Chris Struyk-Bonn

“His body had taken over, and he'd fought, and he'd even, in a small, strange, hidden way, enjoyed it.”

— Cassandra Clare

“amidst the horrors of war, it became apparent that there was no way he could possibly survive the carnage. And if by some stroke…

— Julia Quinn

“He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.”

— Phillip W. Simpson

“He looked exactly the same when he was alive, only he was vertical.”

— Jack Trevor Story

“I can't help but stare at his swollen eye and bruised jaw. He looks like the god of war, damaged and scarred, but still…

— Ally Carter