Ashes Quote by Cormac McCarthy

“The world soon to be largely populated by men who would eat your children in front of your eyes and the cities themselves held…

— Cormac McCarthy

“The surrounding black night air rushed by me as my eyes began to adjust to the darkness and recognize shapes in the black on…

— Peter Jenkins

“They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava dust to sleep,…

— Cormac McCarthy

“The snow grew deeper as we laboured down the hill. The land was a flat white pall, spread out like rumpled wool. Into the…

— Caroline Lea

“The edge of a colossal jungle, so dark-green as to be almost black, fringed with white surf, ran straight, like a ruled line, far,…

— Joseph Conrad

“Through the night, the black canyon groaned & heaved & gurgled, as if we slept in the belly of a coldblooded beast. I slept…

— Eowyn Ivey

“We walked away from all that was warm and dear and stood frightened in cold rain where the guns fired, and in the end,…

— Charles Todd

“He stands alone in a wasteland of black sand, a realm of charcoal graveyards.  The black mountain stands in the distance, impossibly tall, a…

— Steven Montano

“Startled, I accidently knock over my inkwell. A black tsunami of ink sprawls out across the page, engulfing the tiny village of my words.…

— Danger Slater

“When he held a candle across the threshold, the black swallowed the fire completely. When he tried to step across it, he felt nothing…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“My body slid from human to wolf in a crack! of black smoke. Wolf was panting and I watched frost dissipate on my hot…

— Heather Heffner

“There was a time in my life⎯not too long ago⎯when I was trapped. Pulled beneath the waves, into the hole I had climbed into.…

— Marni Mann