Beam Quote by Cynthia Kadohata

There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

“In the distance, they could see the headlights from cars crossing the bridges like fireflies swarming the streets toward home.”

— Abby Slovin

And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town.

— Frank Dempster Sherman

“Below, he could see down the entire Strip, from the radioactive green lion at the base of the MGM Grand to the glowing spire…

— Ben Mezrich

Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the…

— Joseph Conrad

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

— Ernest Hemingway

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a…

— Bram Stoker

They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the…

— Cormac McCarthy

We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving…

— Shirley Jackson

“The sun shined and winked through wind-rustled leaves to paint the roadway with an ever-shifting mosaic of light and shadows.”

— Anonymous

“A vision of underground connections flashed before him again, only inverted. A towering construction like a tree strung with lights, shimmering, changing, and in…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could…

— Henry David Thoreau