Changed Quote by Stephen Crane

“Pain and guilt tore through him. His soul was bleeding to death. He stood there, waiting to die. How could he not? But such…

— Diana Pharaoh Francis

“Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was crushed, again…

— Mary Gaitskill

“Wounds to the soul didn't just bleed; they ate at your very being. They fed on everything good, everything right, until you were hollow.”

— Sadie Allen

“Every step. Every curve into darkness. Every moment of despair and rage and pain. It had led him to precisely where he needed to…

— Sarah J. Maas

“It seemed as if at least a moment some spring had burst forth in his barren soul.”

— Väinö Linna

“He was the devil. Calm, unfettered, and unaffected. Leading me down a sordid path.”

— Ellie Fox

“Confounded, though immortal. But his doom, reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought both of lost happiness and lasting pain torments him.”

— John Milton

“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 wore the memory of her embrace like armor, and though he knew it would not save his life, it would be all that…

— Andrew Levkoff

“The terrible agony that had been unleashed here seemed to remain coiled in the air, poised, ready to snatch at his sanity. In self-defense,…

— Steven Erikson

“What he didn't know was that he always would and that in all those important moments that were yet to come to pass in…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

“and when I took my fingers down, there was the stain of the tears, tinged with mortal blood. And already there was begun in…

— Anne Rice