Elly

“The day you are not a fire,” he said, “is the day the earth will fall still for me.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“Please don't be afraid of me. Not me. We may have had a rocky start, but I would never hurt you. Never," he whispered harshly.  It was his desperate request that swayed her. It touched her very soul. It was filled with a raw sense of loneliness that she understood all too well.”
― Alanea Alder, My Commander

“They danced wildly in the forest, swaying with the tall trees and the howling wind.”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society

“On my first night there, I sat on the bad during the twilight while the walls went slowly from gray to gold to black, listening to a soprano's voice climb dizzily up and down somewhere at the other end of the hall until at last the light was completely gone, and the faraway soprano spiraled on and on in the darkness like some angel of death, and I can't remember the air even seeming as high and cold and rarefied as it was that night, or ever feeling farther away from the low-slung lines of dusty Piano.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History