Blood Quote by Anthony Burgess

“It was a pretty sight, and a seasonable one, that met their eyes when they flung the door open. In the fore-court, lit by…

— Kenneth Grahame

“The waltz was the only way a young couple could touch one another, and even through gloves I could feel the heat of your…

— Fiona McIntosh

“Are you all sitty comftybold two-square on your botty? Then I'll begin. Now, like all real life experience stories, this also begins once a…

— Stanley Unwin

“One cool morning—a rainstorm had swept through the night before; now the City of Angels sparkled like Eden itself—he was walking between soundstages in…

— James Kaplan

“Spend the glittering moonlight there Pursuing down the soundless deep Limbs that gleam and shadowy hair, Or floating lazy, half-asleep. Dive and double and…

— Rupert Brooke

“Honeysuckle iced petals,' scoffed one John Bull, spying my menu. 'I should as soon eat a bouquet of flowers. You must serve me solid…

— Martine Bailey

Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon,…

— Li Bai

Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed…

— William Golding

Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls,…

— Thomas De Witt Talmage

“I went up the stairs of the little hotel, that time in Bystřice by Benešov, and at the turn of the stairs there was…

— Bohumil Hrabal

“All round there was a rising tide of beer, widow Désir's barrels had all been broached, beer had rounded all paunches and was overflowing…

— Émile Zola

“Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign saying GET…

— Lauren Willig