Quote by William Gay

“But hadn’t they all changed? Life happened without permission, and it swept everyone along in its violent wake.”

— Evelyn Skye

“We were all the same, it seemed to me, all of us dented and scratched and damaged, held together with pins and duct tape,…

— Greg Gifune

“Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“She had shared his sheets, and, in nightmares of remorse, he had shared her body, waking with drastic regret, feeling as soiled and soilsome…

— Barry Hannah

“In times of violence, there is always that first acquaintance or intimate of ours, who, when they are touched, makes what had seemed like…

— Mohsin Hamid

“That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had…

— Lois Lowry

“Each night passed with a devastating sameness.”

— George Saunders

“In that far away land, night never came and day never broke. It was the place where tears did not fall and worries did…

— Nely Cab

“We were just us, broken and bruised, fucked-up and messy, and together we were everything we never thought we could be.”

— T.M. Frazier

“There was something to be said about the quietness of night. About the stillness. Everything was tranquil and unmoving as though the world had…

— Bianca Scardoni

“There were more fights, more arguments, more yelling in the night, more long absences. Until it seemed as if anything would be better than…

— Esmeralda Santiago

“While he slept the world spun on, changed, situations altered and grew more complex, left him more inadequate to deal with them.”

— William Gay