Ethan-frome Quote by Edith Wharton

“The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic”

— Edith Wharton

“The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches”

— Edith Wharton

Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and…

— Markus Zusak

“Pines and spruces can't be sheared like yew or hemlock, but they are stately in large landscapes, where their eventual size is a plus.…

— Cassandra Danz

“The night starts to drift in. The crimson fingers of the dyin sun bleed into gray. The first stars blink down at us. Not…

— Moira Young

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all…

— Martin Amis

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their…

— Charles Tennyson Turner

The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Ye men of gloom and austerity, who paint the face of Infinite Benevolence with an eternal frown; read in the Everlasting Book, wide open…

— Doma Publishing House

When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

“Don’t you dare try to out-gloom me. I’m the only one here entitled to indulge in deep dark existential brooding.”

— Simon R. Green