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“What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.”

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American playwright, renowned for his profound psychological portrayals and unique dramatic style. His notable works include 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'The Glass Menagerie'. more

“I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I'll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. And I don't want to look for it, because I might find it and have to leave." - from a letter to his mother Helen Pancake that Breece wrote in Charlottesville, where he was studying writing.”

Thinking Want Writing Looks Soul Might Able Mother Left Study Letters West Ancient Ghost My Soul Rooted Virginia Pancakes Helen West Virginia

Author:Breece D'J Pancake

“Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.”

Two Silence Fingers Flames Candle Bangs Unwind

Book:Unwind

Source: Unwind

“Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity”

Knows Long Bigs Lasts Form Space Metals Inability Sharks Equilibrium Captivity Aquariums Claustrophobia

Book:Unwind

Source: Unwind

“It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough.”

Ifs Want Enough Hands Moving Flames Tease

Book:Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly

Source: Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly

“Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law”

Law Dies Bitter Unchangeable Laws Of Life

Author:David Clement-Davies

“Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally”

Darkness Allies

Author:David Clement-Davies

“Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart.”

Knows Heart Dark Darkness Alright Rubble

Book:The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

“Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it”

Hands Light Grace Arms Bed Lays Thrown Mattresses Sam Roth

Book:Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

“Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart”

Two Dying Two Things

Book:Linger

Source: Linger

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