The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“There is still hope that if the people refuse to give up and keep silent, no matter how long or inconsequential their… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I am nothing, yes; I am air and darkness, a word, a promise. I watch in the crystal and I wait in… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Isolation is a sickness unspoken..it is impossible to be all we can in it..it is dangerous but when there is no ligh… — Abigail Vanhoff Copy Share Image
“a tangle of sea smell and of weeds and damp, new-plowed earth, mingled with the heavy perfumes of white blossoms somewhere near,… — kate chopin Copy Share Image
“That your eyes are like bits of sky seen through the leaves. And that, like the rain washes the mud from the… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
“Just then, a singly firefly flashes its light, then another. Within a minute the darkness is filled with fireflies, twinkling their silent… — Dominique Paul Copy Share Image
[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Hush!’ said the Cabby. They all listened. In the darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing. It… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Perhaps in the margins of darkness, I could create a son who is not missing; who lives beyond even my own imagination… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy… — Daniel Goldin Copy Share Image
“The softly flowing, white, and parched clouds passed by. I, colored gray, merely kept staring at them as they slowly vanished out… — Kanon Wakeshima Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand.” Except, truthfully, I just didn’t want to understand. Pain shadowed across his face. “Darkness lives in me, Theia. Inside… — Gwen Hayes Copy Share Image
“He remembered the darkness and despair she'd suffered during her long years as a prisoner, but he also recalled the deep, unquenchable… — John Stephens Copy Share Image
As a writer I feel more like a filter than a performer. I absorb and observe and then I name scatterings of… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
“And though this encounter took place against an African sky, our brief enchantment symbolized the new world's greatest taboo - the hand… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Moonlight faded after a time, and with it that distant specter of the mountain; then the triple mischiefs of darkness, cold, and… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“His shadow lay over the rocks as he bent, ending. Why not endless till the farthest star? Darkly they are there behind… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Be not afraid to pray--to pray is right. Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray, Though hope be weak or… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The heart is God's most magnificent creation, and the prize over which he fights the kingdom of darkness. Now consider this -… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“Can I make my words reach you? One single little word? In that case I would like it to be this word.… — Mons Kallentoft Copy Share Image
The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“I have cried in night for rescue, Wept in light of day for relief, I have prayed that God would just take… — Ronnie Worsham Copy Share Image
I remember a nightfall from childhood, far from home and off the known track: I'd been walking with some older boys, but… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
It is a light that if you are without it you are in and ocean of darkness. It is a medicine or… — Ibn Al Qayyim Copy Share Image
From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak I fought with the Balrog of Morgoth... Until at last I threw down my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She holds within her the memory of this journey, drawn out for her like a constellation in the darkness, each element of… — Kirsty Gunn Copy Share Image
“A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger's brow,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“... and in that part of the world the darkness could go on and on forever, as though there would never be… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and I don’t know the… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
“Now do you understand why I'm interested in you? You're a locked door, sweetheart. You give no one a key and you… — Tricia Owens Copy Share Image
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