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“He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs...”

— cassandra clare

“What was he thinking falling in love with her again, opening himself to another world of hurt when she left—knowing she would leave? She…

— Leah Braemel

“After college, I started working in the gallery and found myself surrounded by a whole new set of people who had not yet grown…

— Sara Baume

“It took me years to realize that I could do all kinds of drastic acts like quitting jobs, relationships, towns (or all of the…

— Summer Pierre

“From childhood he had been devoted to whatever was useless, metamorphosing the streetcar rattle of life into events of consequence, and when he began…

— Osip Mandelstam

“I had left small-town, rural life for good, and I had no intention of ever returning, not because I didn't like my home but…

— Siri Hustvedt

“I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each…

— Joseph Conrad

“He didn’t stick around in the vicinity doing mysterious shit, sending messages to the heroine by a third party. He hauled his ass into…

— Charlaine Harris

“He was a murderer and a rapist. He was crazy and unstable and wanted to possess me, body and soul, but when he made…

— Whitney Bianca

“That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of life now. No one was any better off because of…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Two years, I thought. Two years living wrapped in vicious guilt, self-doubt, and rage. No truth to salve the wounds, only the steady application…

— David Grant Urban

“For the next thirteen-plus hours, I stared out the window at the passing towns and countryside. All those lives. All those untold stories and…

— Kate Klise