Chandra Bickleman

“Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went down in here, he was going to need all of his wits to get out of it.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“Worry rose up on a bubble of realization.”
― Max Brooks, Minecraft: The Island: An Official Minecraft Novel

“But it was a mental thing. He had gotten depressed thinking about how they hadn't found him yet, and when he was busy and had something to do the depression seemed to leave.”
― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

“I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany