Quote by Maggie Stiefvater

“All these threads, like the ley-lines he'd read about in his Time-Life history books, converging on the Cicciaro girl, who lay there unaware, a…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“What he wanted was to be home, and home wasn’t here. He was stretched too thin to consider what was wise or what was…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“there was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass…

— Herman Melville

“They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of…

— George R.R Martin

“Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings.”

— Charles Boardman Hawes

“He was hounded by the shade of his brother, demanding terribly the price of blood... William of Malmesbury, the History of the English Kings.”

— Patricia Bracewell

“Oh scattered band, once my playmates, you few Who were amidst the gardens here and there in the city, How hesitantly we located one…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Yet no matter what they were doing, everyone in the forest waited with an indrawn breath, waiting for the taste of autumn, the smell…

— Margaret Rogerson

“Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.”

— Horace

“You mar our labour: keep your cabins:you do assist the storm[...] What cares these roarers for the name of king?”

— William Shakespeare

“One of Lucy's admirers took to her, apparently." "Took to her?" echoes William, his own feelings for Sugar causing him to construe the phrase…

— Michel Faber

“They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road.”

— Erin Bow