Nature Quote by John Burnside

“She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The…

— Virginia Woolf

“Wherever she looked, she saw fires. They covered the earth like fallen stars, and like the stars there was no end to them.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Once when we stopped to rest, she dug her toes into the earth at the edge of a field and smiled. When I saw…

— Chris Cleave

“She walked, and with each step she let another inch of the long furl of her expectations go. The place itself was like a…

— Ellen Airgood

“Even as she began to slip into the gloaming of her life, the primal need to live…to survive...clawed at her soul.”

— R.W. Patterson

“It didn’t break the trance. She wasn’t sure that anything could, and briefly wondered if they’d stay like this until flesh rotted away from…

— Ashton Morgan

“The tide of her exhilaration drained from her, leaving her exhausted and heartsick. She would have bound the entire city, made them all into…

— Helene Wecker

“She felt, beneath her feet, the shifting of the planks she'd laid across the quicksand of that other life. She'd thought she could escape…

— Laini Taylor

“Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

“...her dark eyes were like twin entrances to two deep caves. Nothing lived in those caves. Maybe something had, once upon a time. There…

— John D. MacDonald

“And were you cornered by her, eye to eye, you would see that there are still some watchful creatures whose essence lies unbound by…

— Toby Barlow

“She had picked up life where she had left off... and hoped that would be enough to get the universe to politely overlook her.”

— Thomm Quackenbush