Atheism Quote by Godfrey Higgins

“Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the window, and…

— Charlotte Brontë

“here he dug in his pockets and produced a thimble, a root, two empty tin cans, three Indian arrowheads, an apple peeler, a dried-up…

— James McBride

“As he lifted the leather-bound cover, the musty smell of paper rose up. He turned the first mottled leaf and looked down at an…

— Lawrence Norfolk

“The walls were hung with rich tapestries representing the Triumph of Beauty. A large press, inlaid with agate and lapis-lazuli, filled one corner, and…

— Oscar Wilde

“Looking like a rake with two plastic tangerines tied to it”

— Robert Galbraith

“It was a garden, a walled garden. Overgrown but with beautiful bones visible still. Someone had cared for this garden once. The remains of…

— Kate Morton

“It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The solitary pilgrim drawn up…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Quoyle remembered purple-brown seckle pears the size and shape of figs, his father taking the meat off with pecking bites, the smell of fruit…

— Annie Proulx

“Any hawk looking down on the orchard's cloistered square, hoping for the titbit of a beetle or a mouse, would see a patterned canopy…

— Jim Crace

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Nexus I wrote stubbornly into the evening. At the window, a giant praying mantis rubbed his monkey wrench head against the glass, begging vacantly…

— Rita Dove

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were…

— Charles Dickens