Martina Litty

“When she returned, she leaned on the table beside Adam, who touched her wrist. She didn't know what to do in response. Touch it back? The moment had passed. She resented her body for not giving her the correct answer.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“He sat in the reading room by himself, the diffuse morning light rendering him soft and dusty. He had removed one of the tarot decks from its bag and lined all of the cards faceup in three long rows. Now he leaned on the table and studied the image on each, one at at time, shuffling on his elbows to the next when he was through. He looked nothing like the Adam who'd lost his temper and everything like the Adam she had first met. That was what was frightening, though⁠—there'd been no warning.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“His heart smack[ed] against his ribs like a bumblebee at a window.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“I didn't know I was lonely. I didn't know there was another way to be.”
― Susan Scarf Merrell, Shirley