That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Sachi scowled. ‘I saw your tattoos, I read the book, I know all about this Order of Dark and Light thingy—so what… — Ashlee Nicole Bye Copy Share Image
“This piece of inked paper stands a colossus A monument to a string of moments once dear; The only surviving testament to… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Then—as he was talking—a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“If you're going into a dark place... you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
In one way, it is this sense of order and also love that, I think, really saved Eleanor Roosevelt's life. And in… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men… — William Booth Copy Share Image
“If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us fast and draws… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Never whine about the French. It's considered a sign of weakness to even acknowledge their existence. Remember: The poor devils haven't won… — Randy Wayne Copy Share Image
Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
When you are shooting over a period of six months, you tend to forget how dark or bright it was. And when… — Rajiv Menon Copy Share Image
“You were a beauty born of darkness. You wore it wrapped around as a cape. Designed to draw others to you, only… — Dark Night Beacon Copy Share Image
I swept down the stairs to find Fade waiting for me at the bottom. His dark eyes widened, and for the first… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
So much of the time I'm cast as an asshole or a douchebag, or that kind of thing. I'd like to go… — Dan Amboyer Copy Share Image
“So many things are lost in the dark. A slight misstep and we lose our footing. A quick hand in a pocket… — Patois Copy Share Image
They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
…"we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Like the sweet moon keeps the sky Like the wind goin' whooshing by When those ol' sunbeams break the day I will… — Kathi Appelt Copy Share Image
The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith… — Rufus Jones Copy Share Image
On occasions, global or personal, we may feel we are distanced from God, shut out from heaven, lost, alone in dark and… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
There she is, lying in front of me, smoking a cigarette, thinking of something or someone else. And that’s how she is… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda) It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the… — Adam Skirving Copy Share Image
The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Iggy Pop is legendary - he is awesome - and I am a massive Bruce Springsteen fan. His song 'Cautious Man' is… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
