Action Quote by Ben Aaronovitch

“He was out there alone with himself, composed, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart to the serenity of the skies, moved in…

— Victor Hugo

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the…

— Victor Hugo

He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These…

— Ivan Turgenev

“There occurred within a causal radius of Brandon Station one of those infinitesimal ripples in the creative silence of the First Cause. In the…

— John Cowper Powys

“He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in a dead…

— Dan Simmons

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.

— Kate DiCamillo

“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic, and then…

— William Somerset Maugham

I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he…

— Joseph Conrad

“He stood there unsteady in the cold, mumbling syllables which almost resolved into her name, as though he could recall, and summon back, a…

— William Gaddis

“What's this place called?' He told me and, on the instant, it was as though someone had switched off the wireless, and a voice…

— Evelyn Waugh

“In the last fifteen minutes, she’d knocked him flat on his back, reduced him to speechlessness, and for the first time in his life,…

— Angel Payne

“Yes, this was a haunted place. He had read about certain materials absorbing the sounds of their surroundings like divots in a vinyl recording,…

— Aaron Dries