Mountain Quote by Dodie Smith

“Now he felt the despair his father had felt as the familiar world slipped from around him, the valleys gashed and ugly, the woods…

— Rohinton Mistry

“My father didn’t look at me. He dropped more stones upon a random-looking cairn. The townspeople were slow to get out of our sight.…

— China Miéville

“I walked up to the side of the mountain like I used to do when I was a little boy. I looked out over…

— Scott McClanahan

“What strange and thoughtless creatures we were, back in those days. We would go up to the rooftops to smoke, Wurth and I; and…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

“One of the towers has fallen. When it's our turn to leave, it's like something in me is finally willing to listen, and suddenly…

— David Levithan

“XXVI There was set before me a mighty hill, And long days I climbed Through regions of snow. When I had before me the…

— Stephen Crane

“Not long after our final lesson, on one of our Sundays at the lake, my father and I were walking along the shore when…

— Anne Michaels

“She wandered almost at random, zigzagging streets, following a canal for a bit, stopping to admire the towering red brick buildings that channelled her…

— Karl Drinkwater

“On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and talking like men who knew they…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Ahead in the distance we could see the main gate, but there was a sea of cars, none moving, people standing, milling around, waiting…

— Tucker Elliot

“The sky was low and broody, but from here, near the treeline, you could see the forest rolling down into the valley, the lake…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Someone had cleared that hillside once to make an orchard that had fallen into ruin and was now only twisted silver branches and split…

— Louise Erdrich