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“A strange stillness had settled over him, as well, a waiting. The earth was shifting beneath him, and he had the hideous suspicion that…

— Anne Stuart

“He did not feel as if he were inside a Pillar of Darkness in the middle of Yorkshire; he felt more as if the…

— Susanna Clarke

“...experience was static in the valley; it was older than time itself, for time was a thing of but two generations, dated by moons…

— Peter Matthiessen

“He imagined that the great dark abyss of space was alive and that he might attract its attention if he stared too long into…

— Tom Melly

“It was a strange trek — the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused.”

— David Brin

“Was it possible that Ranulph, too, was a real person, a person inside whose mind things happened? He had thought that he himself was…

— Hope Mirrlees

“Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt--an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit? Sadness crept…

— Agatha Christie

“He felt the ground frail as a bird’s skull under his feet, a mere shell of sanity and decorum between him and the dark…

— Sylvia Plath

“I liked the exoticism his travels gave him, the unknownness. He had blown in with the soft breezes of a wider world, and it…

— jojo moyes

“It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were…

— Lorrie Moore

“They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding…

— Donna Tartt

“he crawled on across the farmyard, keeping as low as he could, but trying to watch every direction, too. He had never thought he…

— Robert Jordan