Colour Quote by Hope Mirrlees

“I walk in the direction she tells me. I feel my pores opening, sweat and heat radiating out of my body. A firefly dances…

— Mohsin Hamid

“The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Above, the stars were unwinking, also constant. Suns and worlds by the million. Dizzying constellations, cold fire in every primary hue. As he watched,…

— Stephen King

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

— Anonymous

They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I can't really remember the days. The light of the sun blurred and annihilated all color. But the nights, I remember them. The blue…

— Marguerite Duras

“The only way I can describe the visions I witnessed with even faint approximation is in terms of other scenes which might arouse similar…

— Thomas Ligotti

“The surface of the shoes seemed to pulse with hundreds of reflections and refractions. In the firelight, it was like looking at boiling corpuscles…

— Gregory Maguire

“There was something oddly restful about the fireflies. He couldn't put his finger on it but he drew comfort from it anyway. The way…

— William Gay

“I saw the great sparkling orbs of his eyes, the tiny red veins that reached for the dark centers, that warm hand burning my…

— Anne Rice

“It argued a special genius; he was clearly a case of that. The spark of fire, the point of light, sat somewhere in his…

— Henry James

“the forest glowered in the evening light, surrounding the town with its secrets and its plots, casting dark shadows on their lives. To her…

— Patricia Forde