Despair Quote by Susan Catalano

“She smelled of flowers and rain. A meadow beneath a storm. It was intoxicating, and before he could even ponder why he would think…

— Micah Persell

“And in the air around her, the echo of all those stifled hearts, trapped spirits, fluttered and sighed and breathed.”

— Kate Mosse

“There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light,—sad faces…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the…

— Herman Melville

“She thought of Henry and Diana on the stoop gazing at each other with the confusion and sadness of two puppies who have just…

— Anna Godbersen

“He retrieved the words from somewhere long forgotten. They floated through the foggy recesses of his mind, plucked from the dark and released into…

— R. W. Patterson

“She watched him, thinking and dreaming, feeling life short, shiveringly short. And the bubble of wind within him forcing its way upwards as from…

— Enid Bagnold

“She'd opened the front cover and fallen inside the wonderful, frightening, magical illustrations. She'd wondered what it must feel like to escape the rigid…

— Kate Morton

“Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of bravery beat within her, taking up…

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

“The chaos in my head spun itself into a silk of silence. I had distilled myself to the immediacy of hand, blade, blood, flesh.”

— Caroline Kettlewell

“Till she seemed to swoon, gradually her mind went, and she passed away, everything in her was melted down and fluid, and she lay…

— DH Lawrence

“She didn't know how to describe this feeling, this breathless languor. No one had ever looked at her the way he did, as if…

— Tahereh Mafi