Alive Quote by Shaun Jeffrey

“And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. A missing so complete that if it were to go away, I would turn…

— Ally Condie, Crossed

“Perhaps if you hadn’t been reading all night, you wouldn’t be so exhausted,” snapped the young man seated across from her. She ignored him…

— Sarah J. Maas

“I studied him silently. He looked like he always did—a living, breathing statue. Perfection without any humanity, and yet he was here.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“But nobody was there; nobody was even looking.”

— Rachel Abbott

“Really, nobody was there?” I asked. “Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.”

— Daniel Amory

“His absence was a presence. Who knew an empty space could take up so much room.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“I felt entirely invisible and uncomfortably obvious all at the same time, sitting there in practically nothing in front of this stranger who was…

— Jessica Verdi

“No one seemed to be standing there. However, she could feel someone watching them. It had to be Dimitris… Only this time, she was…

— Angel Sefer

“So many human beings, none of them seeing clearly.”

— Anthony Doerr

“He looked distraught, though perhaps he always looked like that, given that he didn’t eat enough or sleep enough or witness sunlight anywhere other…

— Molly Collier

“He had been told that when looking for a good oracle, it was best to find the oracle that other oracles went to.”

— Douglas Adams

“During the luncheon he paid attention to no one except his own phantoms.”

— Gabriel García Márquez