Eerie Quote by A.B. Shepherd

“They lived in rural Michigan in the pre-automobile age, and for the most part they had never been fifty miles away from the farm…

— Bruce Catton

“Perhaps, until this moment, he had not quite believed that Samarkand really existed. Now there was no doubt. This was no fable, no haunt…

— Alex Rutherford

“His father in law, who was as old as the century, had just retired and was living in a country house in Gelderland. He…

— Harry Mulisch

“There was a mysterious chasm between this island and the greater world, just like there was between old and young, ancient and new.”

— Ann Brashares

“In his time the City was made more fair than it had ever been, even in the days of its first glory; and it…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“The cabins they passed among seemed solemn in their abandonment, cramped by the watercourse and the overhanging brow of the cloudy mountain. Some of…

— Charles Frazier

“The island had come to seem one of those places seen from the train that belong to a life in which we shall never…

— Arthur Ransome

“Every corner of the island was ransacked; every human being that could be found, was slain or carried into captivity. Nothing was to be…

— William Deans

“And yet on that bench at Jacobacci, I was glad I had left everyone else behind. Although this was a town with a main…

— Paul Theroux

“If I die tomorrow, Provincetown is where I’d want my ashes scattered. Who knows why we fall in love, with places or people, with…

— Michael Cunningham

“We saw around us on every side traces of the Divine wisdom and beneficence; and our hearts overflowed with love and veneration for that…

— Johann David Wyss

“But it was the center of the room that drew my eyes, for there was a great circular table, covered in a glass dome,…

— Rosamund Hodge