Some scents sparkle and then quickly disappear, like the…

I'm not bankrupt of effervescence. I'm not bankrupt of craic.

— Chris Eubank Sr

“Extraordinary effervescence exists within you, waiting to be tapped.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

“The most dreadful scenes, the worst in Dante's Inferno, for example, can be visualized by the inner eye; and sounds, too, are conveyed to…

— William Henry Hudson

“The summer came upon the country like a conqueror.”

— Somerset Maugham

“A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris…

— R.D. Ronald

“The vampire moved as a unit, talons extended, fangs sprung free of their houses of flesh. They came to where the delectable smell of…

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

“...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...”

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

“The blast of hot air lifted Tazeem from his feet and threw him onto his back in the road. He blinked up into the…

— R.D. Ronald

Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.

— Tanith Lee

“His skin was blotched as a dying banana.”

— David Mitchell

“Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them…

— R.D. Ronald

“Even as winter comes, mornings are crisp, and the big, blue sky seems to hang newly washed over the sea of hills.”

— Deborah Lawrenson

“There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue.”

— Lisa Scottoline