Ulla

“A bully can only make you feel bad about yourself if you let them.”
― David Walliams, Mr Stink

“We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story’s end.”
― Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories

“This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.”
― Alistair MacLean, Where Eagles Dare

“The echoes had faded, and now the eager silence of the house rose to enfold us like the waters of a well.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase