Fairytales Quote by Allyse Near

“His face was a little anxious around the eyes, with a crease of worry between the eyebrows—but it was just a face. A normal…

— Adam Slater

“a figure whose black eyes have seen the silent halls of the dead, whose ruined mouth has tasted delicacies unknown this side of the…

— John Langan

“No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look into my dead…

— Frederick Busch

“His face just looks like one of those long, narrow stones in the graveyard, doesn't it? 'Sacred to the memory' ought to be written…

— L.M. Montgomery

“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the…

— Haruki Murakami

“His smile is a stranger resting on a haunted face, only coming out for poisons turning him into a ghost.”

— Craig Stone

“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”

— Osamu Dazai

“I am his tomb. The earth is nothing. Dead. Staves and orchards issue from my mouth. His. Perfume my chest, which is wide, wide…

— Jean Genet

“He stood at the foot of the grave, gloved hands clasped behind him, his dark clothes and hair blending into one black silhouette, as…

— Amanda DeWees

“Whatever had killed him, it hadn't been human. His face was gone, simply torn away. Something had ripped his lips off. I could see…

— Jim Butcher

“such is their image of man’s nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost,”

— Ayn Rand

“...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would…

— William Golding