Kindlehighlight Quote by Mark Twain

“It was a troubled night, the last they spent in the castle. Not many slept. But the lord of it had long understood that…

— MacDonald George

“Sleep looked so much like death, he saw. Every night people perished, if but for a moment. The cryopods and this hopping through the…

— Hugh Howey

“the place of peace, the relief from the emotion, the fear, the loneliness. Sleep was what they all craved at the end of the…

— Angela Marsons

“It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more…

— Haruki Murakami

“They heard a deep murmur of voices, and this time not in their heads. Thousands of the ancient Spirits of both Realms swirled above…

— Angela Orlowski-Peart

“There was something to be said about the quietness of night. About the stillness. Everything was tranquil and unmoving as though the world had…

— Bianca Scardoni

“They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“And now the group was welded to one thing, one unit, so that in the dark the eyes of the people were inward, and…

— John Steinbeck

“This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief --like a whisper of wind--when we are all and finally gone and…

— Edward Abbey

“They camped that night under a full moon and a sky crowded with stars that made Froi forget that there was an old man…

— Melina Marchetta

“Once upon a time, there was a King who walked astride his world - here, there and everywhere. He became poor in order to…

— David Mains

“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