Children Quote by Herodotus

“Between the whores' world and God's world, like a river dividing two empires, stretches an intense smell of urine.”

— Milan Kundera

“Seven Cities was an ancient civilization, steeped in the power of antiquity, where Ascendants once walked on every trader track, every footpath, every lost…

— Steven Erikson

“There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a…

— John Fante

“And then, in the midst of the still-encompassing dream, he felt himself master of Shangri-La. These were his beloved things, all around him, the…

— James Hilton

“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

“Amaranta would sigh, laugh, and dream of a second homeland of handsome men and beautiful women who spoke a childlike language, with ancient cities…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“he came awake like someone struggling to swim to the surface of a lake of laudanum, where the strongest delights were the deepest and…

— Philip Pullman

“She had been with her share of schemers and men who were forever building castles in the sky. All of those dreams made out…

— Ayana Mathis The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

“Good night. What? Those ladies behind those windows? Dream, monsieur, cheap dream, a trip to the Indies! Those persons perfume themselves with spices. You…

— Albert Camus

“He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and death”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Later, when his desires had been satisfied, he slept in an odorous whorehouse, snoring lustily next to an insomniac tart, and dreamed. He could…

— Salman Rushdie

“In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All around the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing…

— Alfred Tennyson