Quote by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens

“The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I startled jerkily,…

— Simona Panova

“What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over…

— H.G. Wells

“It was a wonderful experience. She mistrusted his very slumbers--and she seemed to think I could tell her why! Thus a poor mortal seduced…

— Anonymous

“I brought to mind the image of the stranger lying there in the first light of dawn: the slight growth of whiskers on his…

— Alan Bradley

“He opened the door and led me through a corridor into a dark green lounge curiously paneled with pale green glass behind which, at…

— Gerald Kersh

“I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I was halfway between my home and the cookhouse when a mist of cloud began to creep across the early-risen moon. It darkened the…

— Martine Leavitt

“I smiled and I really felt at that moment that Judas and the Savior had met in me. [...] And yet even this was…

— James Baldwin

“For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“I waited for the Earth to stop spinning, for the rift to open and swallow us. Yet the ash tree remained framed in the…

— John Dolan

“The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over…

— H.G. Wells