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“Everything around me was so starkly white that I began to believe that I would turn white sooner or later. I was quietly being…

— Nikesh Shukla

“This was supposed to be yesterday. I was sitting on the Cardiff/London train, supposedly about to write this very column, and realising something quite…

— Steven Moffat

“The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. Then, at the rim of vision, it…

— Anonymous

“The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity…

— Joseph Conrad

“A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“What discordant vespers do the tinker's goods chime through the long twilight and over the brindled forest road, him stooped and hounded through the…

— Cormac McCarthy

“10- We went walking along the footpaths that snaked through vineyards and barley fields, looking down at our own shadows each preoccupied with our…

— Khaled Hosseini

“the silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured”

— Joan Aiken

“It was chalk white with glaring red eyes and slits for nostrils, like a snake.”

— J.K. Rowling

“Silence then, a world at rest. Not the antithesis of dust, of speed, but its complement. The gloved hand ungloved its partner which in…

— Jamie O'Neill

“A cloud of white death veiled in black…”

— Jean M. Grant

“The tinkle of a wind chime stirred from over a window. Purple and white phlox cascaded cheerfully over the top of a nearby stone…

— Caragh M. O'Brien