First-sentence Quote by Jack Vance

“But it was the center of the room that drew my eyes, for there was a great circular table, covered in a glass dome,…

— Rosamund Hodge

“I shall always remember the next day for one of the most beautiful experiences I have ever had. As we marched forward we caught…

— Heinrich Harrer

“There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as…

— Howard Phillips Lovecraft

The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of…

— Anonymous

“Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower…

— Priya Ardis

“Instead of canals, a magical four-story central courtyard faces the interior walls. A greenhouse of sorts. The roof is glass and the floor is…

— Barbara A. Shapiro

“Light - both physical and moral - was a central concern to the men and women living in the medieval age. They attempted to…

— Douglas Wilson Douglas Jones

“The river - with the sunlight flashing from its dancing wavelets, gilding gold the grey-green beech-trunks, glinting through the dark, cool wood paths, chasing…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“One can trace the relics of this former happiness in the trim shapes of the buildings, the occasional graceful churches, and the evidences of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“The walls were hung with rich tapestries representing the Triumph of Beauty. A large press, inlaid with agate and lapis-lazuli, filled one corner, and…

— Oscar Wilde

“Julius explained that the palace rooms where they stood were called Wunderkammers, or wonder rooms. Souvenirs of nature, of travels across continents and seas;…

— Whitney Otto

“She stood at the edge of a glassy river lined with impossibly tall trees, fanning out their wide emerald leaves among the puffy white…

— Shannon Messenger