Quote by A.J. Aalto

“Midnight glided across the landscape like a velvet bat.”

— Terry Pratchett

“He preached as if he had a flaming sword in his hand. Bats fell out of the rafters. The organ started up by itself.…

— Terry Pratchett

“Women, it seemed, were obliged to be thick-skinned about their own rapes, while comics remained too thin-skinned to handle even mild criticism. I”

— Lindy West

“... but there lies a pain and longing in his eyes, a look of horror as he sees a batlike form crawl to its…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Possessed by the power of the gorgeous night, she seemed at one and the same moment annihilated and glorified.”

— George MacDonald

“In that dark hour I was aghast to realise that something within me, long sickening, had quietly died. I suddenly knew I had no…

— Evelyn Waugh

“A transient wish crossed his mind; that he could have stayed around and introduced her to the innocent pleasures of... But the devil with…

— Laura Kinsale

“Elizabeth felt as if every cell in her body was aflame with desire.”

— Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin

“I could easily imagine him on a battlefield ripping his enemies in half with his bare hands. Throw a kilt and a broadsword across…

— Grace Goodwin

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

“Still, the baths helped ease her pain to some degree, the darkness around her, calling her closer to that day, but she knew it…

— Kristin Elyon

“The stark nakedness and simplicity of the conflict with which humanity is oppressed - that of getting angry with and wishing to hurt the…

— John Bowlby