Colour Quote by Janet Frame

“THE sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth…

— Virginia Woolf

“How divine the coming of the morning,—the coming of the Sun,—exorcising the shadowy terrors of the night with infinite restoration of color! I look…

— Lafcadio Hearn

“It was an unusual sunset. Having sat behind opaque drapery all day, I had not realized that a storm was pushing in and that…

— Thomas Ligotti

“scattered cracking sounds bristling gaps in the wood every now and then the red mark of a gunshot splinters of a language forgotten or,…

— Lorand Gaspar

“It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The solitary pilgrim drawn up…

— Cormac McCarthy

“They came there regularly every evening drawn by some need. It was as if the water floated off and set sailing thoughts which had…

— Virginia Woolf

“And yet—and this was even more frightening still—I could also feel something within me come undone. Even today, all these decades later, I cannot…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“We had proceeded but a few days, coasting the crushing capes of rock that every where seemed to run out in a diablerie of…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

“This time I saw. In a blue heaven was coiled an infinite snake of gold and green, with four eyes of fire, black fire…

— Aleister Crowley

“And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. She walked with measured steps, draped…

— Joseph Conrad

“Why, observe the thing; turn it over; hold it up to the window; count the beads, long, oval, like some seaweed bulbs, each an…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

“.. And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. 'She walked with measured steps,…

— Joseph Conrad