Quote by Edward Gorey

“in the strange dizziness of that moment, the statue every man eventually erects and that hardens in the fire of the years, into which…

— Albert Camus

“Hurriedly then he donned his magical sword in its wide scabbard of leather; and with scanty provisions hastened over the fields, after the last…

— Lord Dunsany

“He was forever dwelling on his failures. He held them up to the light and examined them in minute detail, like necklaces that had…

— Elliott Holt

“Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for…

— Jack London

“And yet suddenly, terribly, he wanted it again, the way it used to be, arms linked together, all drunk and singing beautifully into the…

— Michael Shaara

“again, only to groan, tear away from the illuminated buildings, and head into the blackness once more. Each stop was a luminescent island in…

— Christine Evelyn Volker

“A brief rustling that broke off short, as if startled at itself, then deadly silence, that agonising, watchful hush, fraught with its own betrayal,…

— Gustav Meyrink

“Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire,…

— Victor Hugo

“But there was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the…

— Malcolm Lowry

“The rest of the time he entertained all the guilt that wished to call, carried in by the wind through the darkness, to enter…

— Colm Tóibín

“Seen and unseen, the great and the unknown tumbled together in a writhing heap as the bow plunged deeper and the stern rose higher.”

— Walter Lord