Quote by Charles Dickens

“I walked away at a good pace, thinking it was easier to go than I had supposed it would be, and reflecting that it…

— Charles Dickens

“Whistling. The Human was whistling to himself, off-key and wretched. Whistling! Like he hadn’t a care or a clue about the poverty and decay…

— S.G. Night

“And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Out of a still, clear day, the wind suddenly picked up. It bowed the grass in his direction, unaccountably lifting his spirits and making…

— Nancy Pickard

“Elisa thought how empty the prayers sounded. The words rattled around in the ancient rafters and then returned to them like dead leaves falling…

— Bodie Thoene

“Then, as the storm burst round him, he rose slowly to his feet and turned his closed eyes toward the Sea. And the world…

— W.E.B. DuBois

“He turned in a small circle and looked at the grass, the rocks, the river, the raining sky with its tatters and torn places,…

— Richard Bausch

“It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The…

— Wilkie Collins

“It might have been the entrance to some holy place, so strange and solemn was the quiet; and looking from out of its shadows…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“So I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible…

— Samuel Beckett

“Instead of singing, like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on the hickory…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I pulled my mind off the table and stared into the dimness beyond, and then I gradually saw the servants as real people, watching…

— Dodie Smith