While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.

    — Frank Herbert, from Dune

[“How much farther?” Caine asked.
“Soon,” Pack Leader said.] “The Darkness is near.

    — Michael Grant, from Gone

[She shuts her eyes.] Drifts off, untroubled, everything clear, and radiant, and all at once.

    — Khaled Hosseini, from And the Mountains Echoed

Lately, I’ve been leaning toward kindness.

    — Gillian Flynn, from Sharp Objects

We’ll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it’s time to stop.

    — Lauren DeStefano, from Sever

When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea’s voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.

    — Stephen Crane, from “The Open Boat”