Children Quote by Eloisa James

“The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully that lay towards the city, where, in the…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“slipped down my body and gathered at my ankles before traveling in a flotilla to the drain. The white, iridescent bubbles jiggled as droplets of water…

— Emily Kimelman

“It is not only streams and rivers that flow: a street, with a door set back from it, can slide over into the depth…

— Violette Leduc

“Then rain began to fall in an extravagant tantrum. High up in mountain country though we were, every little river became a huge muscled…

— Sebastian Barry

“All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or…

— Bram Stoker

“There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking…

— Charles Dickens

“For the first few miles the highway ran through a little valley dotted with rocks that seemed to have fallen from the sky. Chunks…

— Roberto Bolaño

“But the river, though it flowed so slowly, had still a sense of movement and it gave one a melancholy feeling of the transitoriness…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The trees on either side were very tall and thin, like long, skeletal fingers reaching to the sky. The few remaining leaves were still…

— S.J. Bolton

“It wallowed in its water-bed; it burrowed, heaved and swung; It gnawed its way ahead with grunts and sighs; Its bill of fare was…

— Robert Service

“A huge maze of tents and mud huts and homes built from plastic and aluminum siding in a labyrinth of narrow passageways littered with…

— Khaled Hosseini And The Mountains Echoed

“The small sands in that waste was all there was for the wind to move and it moved with a constant migratory seething upon…

— Cormac McCarthy