Quote by William Peter Blatty

“His features were smudged and indistinct, as though a thumb had smeared itself across an ink drawing of a face. His”

— John Connolly

“Tresses of lustrous, snow-white hair tumbled from their cloth-bound imprisonment, streaming like a waterfall down the young woman’s back. In an effort to make…

— Leanna Renee Hieber

She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the…

— Cassandra Clare

“He suggested devils, skulls, harsh masculine drawings. This thing was…heart poundingly good. She wanted to pluck it, and bury her face in it, and…

— Charlotte Stein

“Her skin was not a surface; it was an indefinite glory of the palest rose and orange that chose to mould itself to those…

— Geoffrey Household

“it is thought to be somehow related to Adam Smith’s invisible hand, the workings of which are both overstated and mysterious.”

— Richard H. Thaler

“The concept of a weary severed hand, exhausted from relentless creeping, made no sense.”

— Dean Koontz

“She’d already scanned every word a hundred times, absorbing every nuance in gradation and every stray mark of her mother’s pen—from the depth of…

— Laekan Zea Kemp

“Handwriting is rooted in the spirit, even though it appears by means of bodily senses.”

— Al-Nazzam

“turquoise-and-green cloth that cloaked her body did not soften the rigidity of her frame. Her bright copper hair had been arranged into an elaborate…

— Diane Setterfield

“The letter Q for question, seared into human flesh. As I started to sleepwrite my questions, the margin seemed to expand. The paper throbbed…

— Diane Setterfield

“When she first saw him, she took him for a ghost. His jet-black hair fluttered in the breeze as he walked, letting her see…

— Amanda M. Lyons