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I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.
Mark Haddon • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Zeus’ thunderbolts still smell of singed flesh and patricide.
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
Perhaps this is exactly why our ancestors wiped out the Neanderthals. They were too familiar to ignore, but too different to tolerate.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
That would be like the lamb handing a knife to the butcher.
Markus Zusak • The Book Thief
In that instant, kneeling there, everything came clear to him. It was not just Danny the Overlook was working on. It was working on him, too. It wasn’t Danny who was the weak link, it was him. He was the vulnerable one, the one who could be bent and twisted until something snapped.
Stephen King • The Shining
“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
He was utterly still, the type of quiet that I had thought could not belong to humans, a stilling of everything but breath and pulse—like a deer, listening for the hunter’s bow.
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
For the hyphenated
Randy Ribay • Patron Saints of Nothing
He is smiling with every tooth