Blessing Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web…

— Gustave Flaubert

•"for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning…

— Gustave Flaubert

“She was afraid, too, frightened of what she found herself becoming. She felt that she was transforming into a malevolent black spider, hunched back…

— Laura Kinsale

“She sometimes felt like the spider in the middle of the family web, trying to hold all the threads together.”

— Phaedra Patrick

“She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life.”

— Robert Goolrick

“Only the spider paid no mind when the unicorn called softly to her through the open door. Arachne was busy with a web which…

— Peter S. Beagle

“Vibrations caused by powerful turbines stirred Kathy from a dream centered around a funeral. Her eyes flicked open, face dry, and she had no…

— Michael Offutt

And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was…

— Tim Winton

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

— Glen Duncan

She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She knew that this silent, motionless portal opened into the street; if the sidelights had not been filled with green paper, she might have…

— Henry James