"But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away."
— Francesca Lia Block (The Rose and The Beast: Fairy Tales Retold)

""I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death."
— Alice Sebold (Lucky)

"She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day."
— Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)

"Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them."
— Alice Sebold

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
— Joyce Carol Oates