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“She stood in one smooth motion, surprisingly pale where the sun not touch her, slender and hard-muscled, yet with roundnesses and softnesses that haunted…

— Robert Jordan

“His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten…

— Marcel Proust

“most importantly, the entire body made light and nimble.”

— Stuart Alve Olson

“The night before, a whole day could have shape and design. But when it was upon you, it could vanish tragically to air.”

— Lorrie Moore

“I thought I was taking a boring piece of paper and making it look cool, when in fact, I was taking something cool and…

— Gordon Jack

“The cloth was wrinkled and twisted from the struggle. His forehead was damp, and he lay his forearm across it and stared across the…

— Dave Newell

“When the light came, it would fall just so, across his pillow. She’d see his sleeping face in the light: the jackstraw hair, the…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Charles realized that if he were going to apologize to Chrestomanci, he had better do it at once. He turned around to say it.…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Life was filled with so many twists and turns, like the sides of a prism, giving off light; what seemed wrong before seemed almost…

— Mary Campisi

“There was the lamp--dead indeed, and so changed that she would never have taken it for a lamp but for the shape! No, it…

— George MacDonald

“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At…

— Raymond Queneau

“Wrinkles appeared and disappeared as he squinted his eyes and relaxed them, like someone peering into a strobe light, police car-top beacon, flashing neon…

— Dennis Vickers