Corrupted Quote by Gregory Maguire

“The tinker in his burial tree was a wonder to the birds. The vultures that came by day to nose with their hooked beaks…

— Cormac McCarthy

“While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and…

— James Finn Garner

“Swelter's eyes meet those of his enemy, and never has there held between four globes of gristle so sinister a hell of hatred. Had…

— Mervyn Peake

“Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Though Farmer Troutham had just hurt him, he was a boy who could not himself bear to hurt anything. He had never brought home…

— Thomas Hardy

“It was Lord of the Flies without table manners.”

— Denise Mina

“Sing a song of suspense in which the players die. Four and twenty ravens in an Edgar Allan Pie. When the pie was broken,…

— Jessica McHugh

“He rises bloodless from dust, with dead eyes that are pits twin reaches to eternal pain. He is the lodestone to the gathering clan,…

— Steven Erikson

“The king that "never dies" here has been replaced by the king that always dies, and suffers death more cruelly than other mortals.”

— Ernst Kantorowicz

“The flies buzzed in answer above the dirty water standing in the washbasin, in which floated a solitary black hair. It, too, was like…

— Stella Gibbons

“So from the mould Scarlet and Gold Many a Bulb will rise -- Hidden away, cunningly, From sagacious eyes. So from Cocoon Many a…

— Emily Dickinson

“And looking down on them, the other Londoners, those monsters who live in the air, the city’s uncounted population of stone men and women…

— Hilary Mantel