Slow Descent Quote by Dalton Trumbo

“The scarcely audible whisper of soft airs through the trees morning and evening, rain drops falling gently, and the murmur of drowsy surges far…

— Isabella L. Bird

“It was a still afternoon - the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the…

— George Eliot

“The oblong tower of the church, with its wrought-iron steeple, caught the last reflections of the sun against the hills. This is what a…

— Elizabeth Bard

The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new…

— Aeschylus

“It was growing dark on this long southern evening, and suddenly, at the exact point her finger had indicated, the moon lifted a forehead…

— Pat Conroy

“It was an unusual sunset. Having sat behind opaque drapery all day, I had not realized that a storm was pushing in and that…

— Thomas Ligotti

“The days passed on, the weeks passed on, and the track of the golden autumn wound its bright way visibly through the green summer…

— Collins Wilkie

“But what after all is one night? A short space, especially when the darkness dims so soon, and so soon a bird sings, a…

— Virginia Woolf

“Silence and twilight fell over the garden. Far away the sea was lapping gently and monotonously on the bar. The wind of evening in…

— L.M. Montgomery

“sky darkened rapidly, darker every second; the wind rustled the trees in the park and the new leaves on the trees stood out tender…

— Donna Tartt

“It was one of those bitter mornings when the whole of nature is shiny, brittle, and hard, like crystal. The trees, decked out in…

— Guy de Maupassant

“...bathed in the thick honey gold of the sun through encircling trees only just beginning to turn the muted metal colors of fall.”

— Anne Rivers Siddons