Quote by Cormac McCarthy

“Perhaps it is this story that is a bridge over the void, and as it advances it flings forward news and sensations and emotions…

— Italo Calvino

“Now these ashes have grown cold, we open the old book. These oil-stained pages recount the tales of the Fallen, a frayed empire, words…

— Steven Erikson

“Upon the shadowy shore of death the sea of trouble casts no wave. Eyes that have been curtained by the everlasting dark, will never…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“The stream of Time, irresistible, ever moving, carries off and bears away all things that come to birth and plunges them into utter darkness,…

— Anna Comnena

“The future wafts in and out of my world like a ghost - like a lumbering beast, begging to be tamed. For so long…

— Addison Moore

He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried…

— Cormac McCarthy

“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history…

— Frank Herbert

“Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh the same…

— Maurice Druon

“histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever known. But…

— Victoria Aveyard

“The spirit world is moved, the silence broken, The ancient Seers from out the ground have spoken. The appointed years on time's fleet wings…

— Parley P. Pratt

“If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life…

— Patrick Nowell-Smith