Espionage-thriller Quote by Erin Beaty

“Now she took a close look at me for the first time, puffing on her pipe while the old woman beside her sighed. I…

— Arthur Golden

“In the light from the rising moon, a miniature statue shimmered on a pedestal: a statue of a dragon, carved from an enormous emerald.…

— M.L. LeGette

“When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the…

— Oscar Wilde

“I turned and held the blade above us all as an ineffective shield. The bloodstain on the ceiling now spread almost wall to wall;…

— Jonathan Stroud

“Then she spied the cauldeon, sitting upright at the very bottom of the crater, filled with the most beautiful exiler she'd ever seen, like…

— Sherry Thomas

“when the illumination did at last come, we felt repaid. It came unexpectedly, of course—things always do, that have been long looked and longed…

— Mark Twain

“We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“[Eddie] cried out but his cry was lost in the golden blast of some tremendous horn. It came from the top of the Tower,…

— Stephen King

“Mentally, perhaps she was already three parts glass. So intense was her desire to set up a commemorative window to herself that, when it…

— Ronald Firbank

“Kammy could see the palace built into the cliff face. It was a majestic construction. Its white walls stretched up into a cluster of…

— Natalie Crown

“Toward nightfall, Khrenov’s temperature had risen. The thermometer was warm, alive—the column of mercury climbed high on the little red ladder. For a long…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“She saw it, and an extraordinary change came over her. She seemed scarcely to move, and yet all at once, her whole person was…

— Diana Gabaldon