Ward D

Some people keep a darker world on hand so the real one stays bearable.

I needed for the imaginary version of my world to be darker than my real world. Otherwise, I would have wanted to leave them both.

Verity · Colleen Hoover

What it costs to make yourself unnoticeable in a crowded room.

She was trying to make herself as small as possible, blending into the background, going unnoticed. But to me, she was the only person in that room.

The Perfect Marriage · Jeneva Rose

A house with no shadows at all, and every guest locking a door.

The oth­ers went up­stairs, a slow unwilling pro­ces­sion. If this had been an old house, with creak­ing wood, and dark shad­ows, and heav­ily pan­elled walls, there might have been an eerie feel­ing. But this house was the essence of moder­ni­ty. There were no dark corners - ​no pos­si­ble slid­ing pan­els - it was flood­ed with elec­tric light - every­thing was new and bright and shining. There was noth­ing hid­den in this house, noth­ing con­cealed. It had no at­mo­sphere about it. Some­how, that was the most fright­en­ing thing of all. They ex­changed good-​nights on the up­per land­ing. Each of them went in­to his or her own room, and each of them automatical­ly, al­most with­out con­scious thought, locked the door....

And Then There Were None · Agatha Christie