Continuity Quote by Gabriel García Márquez

“For the city, his city, stood unchanging on the edge of time: the same burning dry city of his nocturnal terrors and the solitary…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“In his time the City was made more fair than it had ever been, even in the days of its first glory; and it…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a…

— Charles Dickens

“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line…

— John Buchan

“He had heard the children’s talk, and his heart was very heavy as he looked about the shabby room that used to be so…

— Charles Dickens

“For in the latter days of that passionate life that lay now so far behind him, the conception of a free and equal manhood…

— H.G. Wells

“But most of all, as summer slanted to an end, he was learning to love idleness, idleness no longer as stretches of freedom reclaimed…

— J.M. Coetzee

“The darkness moved around him, every shadow swaying, dipping, and rolling the way a room did after too many drinks, and woven through it…

— V.E. Schwab

“...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red…

— Nelson Algren

“The dream was gone. Something had been taken from him. In a sort of panic he pushed the palms of his hands into his…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The rain had ripened all the country around and the roadside grass was luminous and green from the run-off and flowers were in bloom…

— Cormac McCarthy

“The city rose out the ground beneath it like the first sparkling blossom in the fading winter snow. Here, the winter of death was…

— Eva Vanrell