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“as he held the candlelit cake out in front of him. With each step, the candles hissed and the flames shifted. Far off in…

— Michael Hodges

“Fritz was standing there, four feet back from the door to the office, which was standing open, staring wide-eyed at me. When he saw…

— Rex Stout

“When I returned, not to Berlin, but to Hamburg in the midst of the fog of the beginning of winter, to the road that…

— Kathy Acker

“At night they emerge from the water, stalking over the grassy field, leaving bits of themselves on the ground. They gather at my bedside…

— Lee Thomas

“Just give hime five more minutes and he would surely fall into the German gutter and die. They would all let him, and they…

— Markus Zusak

“From across the dark bedroom, Lassiter stood in the corner next to the highboy, feeling like crap while Tohr whispered to the dress. Scrubbing…

— J.R. Ward

“No man had need of candles when the sun awaited him.”

— George R.R. Martin

“The Führer's judgement will be proved right - again.' 'Of course it will, Erik.' 'He has never yet been wrong!' 'A man thought he…

— Ken Follett

“More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun. Just yesterday, an autumnal London was drenched in…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Each morning, I would pull back the red velvet drapes and open the windows to let in the noise of the city. I loved…

— Armando Lucas Correa

“Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of Adolf Hitler and Judas Iscariot handing out…

— Stephen King