Jack

“She held the woman's hand but the hand was now simply weight. She listened as the men returned north toward the gate from which they'd first entered. They passed close to her tent. It seemed an endless procession, thousands strong. She imagined them not as men, not even as human, but as a dark, daylong season: a primal winter.”
― Omar El Akkad, American War

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“A suggestion of a trapdoor waiting under every word.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven