Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“He exuded wisdom-even the wisest...were pale, flickering candles next to the nourishing solar illumination of [his] insights.” — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life… My life began by flickering out. — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind — Tana French Copy Share Image
Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“The flames rose bright on everyone's screens, flickering lipstick red and traffic-cone orange and Lord knows what else, depending on how your… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
(True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
“[He] turned his back on the window, not knowing why he had gone to it, not knowing what he hoped to see,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image