Creatures Quote by Ilona Andrews

“As we passed this living cruelty, I shuddered in momentarily isolation and then let out an audible gasp at what I saw. They were…

— Alfred Nestor

“The dusk rapidly deepened; the glades grew dark; the crackling of the fire and the wash of little waves along the rocky lake shore…

— Algernon Blackwood

“The trees did not reflect the sun so much as glow from within, as though their bark was of parchment, a membrane through which…

— J.A. Baker

“We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races who fought as the lion…

— Bram Stoker

they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four…

— Toni Morrison

“Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself…

— Joe DeRouen

“It is rather a strange and sad story,’ he went on after a pause. ‘When the world was young, and the woods were wide…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“They wept no animal's tears. They mourned in a great wickerwork of hard muscle and ragged breath. The hot smell of their coats, their…

— Carla Speed McNeil

“Scattered trees, never thick enough to be a forest, were everywhere. Shasta, who had lived all his life in an almost tree-less grassland, had…

— C.S. Lewis

“It was almost twilight, long shadows of oaks and chestnuts crossing the unpaved road leading away from the village. This part of England had…

— Lisa Kleypas

“The yard consisted of grass and a Russian Olive tree, which was about the only kind of tree able to survive on the high…

— Thomas King

“From the dark forest that bordered the soft ploughed fields, came a low cry that did not belong to any animal. It was accompanied…

— Peter James West