Corners Quote by Charles Dickens

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through…

— Emily Bronte

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could…

— William Cowper

Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice…

— Willa Cather

They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to…

— Hermann Hesse

Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways…

— Bruno Schulz

For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to…

— John Milton

“They all seemed hungry, happy, and healthy enough in their buzzing—oh the days were hot, and the noise of bees filled the air that…

— Janet Frame

“Wouldn’t hurt a fly. Members of the family, really. Visitors are comforted by the knowledge, then, that these dogs are kept mostly for their…

— Maggie Stiefvater

He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence…

— Stephenie Meyer

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

— Abraham Lincoln

“He was still wide awake when the morning came - the light changed imperceptibly underground, with the glowtrees flaring up brightly, and the shimmer…

— Ekaterina Sedia