Air Quote by Adelbert von Chamisso

“What I saw was the Count’s head coming out from the window. I did not see the face, but I knew the man by…

— Bram Stoker

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had…

— Oscar Wilde

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For…

— Anonymous

but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion…

— Philip K. Dick

And then, as the room went black, I was suddenly hyperaware that Edward was sitting less than an inch from me. I was stunned…

— Stephenie Meyer

“One evening coming in with a candle I was startled to hear him say a little tremulously, "I am lying here in the dark…

— Joseph Conrad

“I wrenched the door out of my way―ridiculously eager―and there he was, my personal miracle. Time had not made me immune to the perfection…

— Stephenie Meyer

Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those…

— GEORGE ELIOT

I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, 'Ah!' in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I…

— Sylvia Plath

“The glistening colours around his eyes had actually spread out farther on his face, creating an incredibly fascinating montage of blacks, blues, purples, and,…

— Karen Ann Hopkins

“I went in; I closed the door. I sat down on the bed. Blackest space extended before me. I was not in this blackness,…

— Maurice Blanchot

“...and then, with the first and last sound I ever uttered—a ghastly ululation that revolted me almost as poignantly as its noxious cause—I beheld…

— The Outsider H. P. Lovecraft