Blue and gold Quote by Greg Egan

“A thousand years earlier, an old nomad lay down in this circle of stone to finally put an end to his migrations. His soul…

— Nicholas Dickner

“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“When he rose and turned to go back the tarp was lit from within where the boy had wakened. Sited there in the darkness…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and…

— T.H. White

“She found a mossy hollow between the roots of a tree and, putting on her mackintosh, huddled down in her makeshift bed. She ate…

— William Boyd

“He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely…

— Patrick Süskind

“On the seventh day, Howard turned off the trail and sat by the river and smoked a pipeful of tobacco that he had packed…

— Paul Harding

“He slept and in his sleep he saw his friends again and they were coming downriver on muddy floodwaters, Hoghead and the City Mouse…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Till now the evening had been calm, but suddenly the forest grew restless. As I ascended the path out of the river bottom, I…

— Barry Grant

“Later they went outside, where a light rain was blowing in, mixed with salt spray feathering off the surf. Shasta wandered slowly down to…

— Thomas Pynchon

“When he held a candle across the threshold, the black swallowed the fire completely. When he tried to step across it, he felt nothing…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“He wondered if he would live to see the blossom on his apple trees and felt an answering pop inside himself. Ah, so it…

— Salman Rushdie