Bounds Quote by Elizabeth Goudge

“For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle,…

— elizabeth goudge

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her…

— Edith Wharton

“Vibrations caused by powerful turbines stirred Kathy from a dream centered around a funeral. Her eyes flicked open, face dry, and she had no…

— Michael Offutt

“The web convulsed, splitting the dark patch into hundreds of peach-colored corpuscles that pulsed in different directions down the hollow strands. Digestion. The strands…

— Nicola Griffith

“Her father...was all front to back in his transparency: what you saw was what there was, there was nothing clandestine in his character, and…

— Marianne Wiggins

Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

— Gustave Flaubert

“He spun her world in silver-blue Catching in the light the faintest hues A maiden from a castle tall Its towers spun of silk…

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“she bore so many of the signs and disfigurings of extreme old age that she was losing her resemblance to other human beings and…

— Susanna Clarke

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in…

— Paule Marshall

She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and…

— Terry Pratchett

But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil…

— Rick Riordan

“That night I never thought to sleep; but a slumber fell on me as soon as I lay down in bed. I was transported…

— Charlotte Brontë