Belly Quote by James Joyce

“THE REMINDER I While I watch the Christmas blaze Paint the room with ruddy rays, Something makes my vision glide To the frosty scene…

— Charles Dickens

“When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled…

— Kenneth Grahame

“Dinner was wonderful. There was a joint of beef, with roast potatoes, golden-crisp on the outside and soft and white inside, buttered greens I…

— Neil Gaiman

“In May, when the grass was so green it hurt to look at it, the air so overpoweringly sweet you had to go in…

— Jane Hamilton

“One morning there was newly fallen snow in the mountains. It lay halfway down them, and a raw cold, naked and biting, set in…

— Cora Sandel

“Zeke stood up. He held the Tater Tot up to the sunlight streaming in through the cafeteria window. Some kids sitting at tables nearby…

— Alice Alfonsi

“The sky grew darker, and the light abandoned the daytime, so that we found ourselves always moving in a timeless murk, the only way…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“He walked steadily, feeling them behind him. His stride did not falter; he pretended they weren’t there. He pretended that all was well—that those…

— J. Tonzelli

“Next morning, his nose still in the dreambag of a deep pillow contributed to his otherwise austere bed by sweet Blanche (with whom, by…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“It was like putting ten different savory things in the cold-pantry all at once, so each took on a bit of the others’ flavors;…

— Stephen King

“The first harsh, sparse, swift drops rush through the leaves and across the ground in a long sigh, as though of relief from intolerable…

— William Faulkner

“We usually got up at five o’clock. For breakfast, we ate Chinese cabbage that we grew in our garden. It was boiled in water…

— Masaji Ishikawa