Are you in the habit of taking tea with anyone who approaches you in a foreign port?” He went on and snorted carelessly. “No wonder you were abducted so easily.

— V.S. Carnes

At this point, I realize: He is making a monster of me.

— Zoe Cruz

Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.

— Dennis Lehane

Humanity could be clutching the frail baroque of an outmoded world view while the wind of the mind is swaying the stars into very real craft, and out of them is coming… a faint call for help from a lady in a flowered dress.

— Whitley Strieber

If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.

— Cheryl Rainfield

I know I'm not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside--stronger than I ever realized.

— Cheryl Rainfield

Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describe her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I should know better than anyone--you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.

— Cheryl Rainfield

It had started to drizzle. The lamp poles cast a kaleidoscope of light dancing across the puddles in the road. The rain made Sam feel even more lost now, as if these shadowy events were invisible to the world. As if the night was cloaked in anonymity. This wasn’t a peaceful rain - it was a sad one. A drizzle, which wept for the inevitable. Sam knew even if she got Alison out of this alive, the cuts on their lives had already been made, pooling the blood of consequence of their feet as the night dragged on. Whichever way this went, they’d have scars from this night. Scars and scabs and things which could not be spoken. And that made her feel utterly hopeless.

— Adelheid Manefeldt

It’s odd to suddenly discover you’re happy right in the middle of a moment. Usually, you don’t recognize happiness until it’s over, and you’re looking back on it.

— Wodke Hawkinson