Bits and pieces Quote by James Thurber

“The old man with the white beard had gone quite mad. He ripped his robes from his body and ran naked through the forest…

— Jennifer M. Baldwin

“The old man sang for a while, and Mora felt in her head the beginning of a long siege. A wilderness had crept up…

— Jesse Ball

“The man screamed, and screamed behind his mask, and the Bloody-Nine laughed, and twisted the blade. Logen might have pitied him, but Logen was…

— Joe Abercrombie

“The old man always used too much of everything, too many lemons, too much sugar, as if halfmeasures at anything were beneath him.”

— William Gay

“This man, who’d rushed in to hold together all the splintering pieces of my world and forced them back together before they were completely…

— A.L. Jackson

“last the play was ended. All had grown dark. The tears streamed down his face. Looking up into the sky there was nothing but…

— Virginia Woolf

“He's old now. He goes about gathering up the women who loved him and getting a kick out of their consternation and vague distress.…

— Enid Bagnold

“I stared at the words and they did not swim or blur. Rats have no tears. Dry and cold was the world and beautiful…

— Sam Savage

“The man was ruining me, bit by bit.”

— Karina Halle

“It was an evening of torment, and I remember only one other thing about it. At some point after everyone was asleep, I wandered…

— Arthur Golden

“He stared at me and, though the fate he pronounced was golden, there was a malevolence in his dead eyes. ‘You will be king,’…

— Bernard Cornwell

“This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the…

— Vladimir Nabokov