Discovery Quote by Mark Twain

“The boy slept well in the woodland nest where he had laid himself down, in that kind of thin but refreshing sleep which people…

— T.H. White

“He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and…

— T.H. White

“He was still wide awake when the morning came - the light changed imperceptibly underground, with the glowtrees flaring up brightly, and the shimmer…

— Ekaterina Sedia

“The early breeze sighing among the foliage, that waved high over the path, and the hollow dashing of distant waters, he listened to with…

— Ann Radcliffe

“They fluttered and rustled ceaselessly through the air from all the tree-tops and branches. A delicate silvery sound was falling constantly to earth. It…

— Felix Salten

“A brisk wind wove through the bushes, twirling the leaves so that their pale undersides fluttered towards the sun. Like children thrust suddenly into…

— Kate Morton

It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like…

— William Faulkner

“Whichever day it was, it was a gently day - mild, magical and innocent with great sailing of white cloud serene and impregnable in…

— Flann O'Brien

He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there…

— Walter de La Mare

“Now the wood in early morning was utterly silent. She walked carefully through damp leaves, around tangles of bramble and vine, trying not to…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“He sighed profoundly, and flung himself - there was a passion in his movements which deserves the word - on the earth at the…

— Virginia Woolf

“A bright gray sky woke me, sunlight diffused through high thin clouds. That, and the extraordinarily cheerful sound of some bird I did not…

— L.E. Modesitt Jr