Halloween Quote by Jonathan Lethem

In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from…

— Augusten Burroughs

It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light. The streets…

— Charles Dickens

At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out…

— John Steinbeck

I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy…

— Kevin Brockmeier

The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child…

— Markus Zusak

“The town was sunk in a kind of crystal ball; everyone seemed to be asleep (transcendentally asleep!) no matter if they were walking or…

— Roberto Bolaño

Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be watching the…

— James Patterson

“The summer ended. Day by day, and taking its time, the summer ended. The noises in the street began to change, diminish, voices became…

— James Baldwin

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses…

— James Joyce

“What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to horizon, and thin white wreaths…

— E. Nesbit