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“Henry James rhymed Fellowship with the gesture of biting a neglected apple, and Ovid a scarlet curtain with the skin of Atalanta.”

— Hugh Kenner

“He had been a mere man railing at a condition, but now he was out of it and could see that it had been…

— Stephen Crane

“He preached as if he had a flaming sword in his hand. Bats fell out of the rafters. The organ started up by itself.…

— Terry Pratchett

“I lifted the latch, and there he stood, dark and tall, the scholar's gown falling from his shoulders like the cloak of the Black…

— Geraldine Brooks

“Uncle Gabriel was already in the courtyard. His face had turned an alarming shade of puce. He was shouting something about thieving Herondales.”

— Cassandra Clare

“I am made of death. I am the Great Leveller. I am the storm in the High Places.” The Bloody-Nine’s voice, but it came…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Quentyn Martell almost laughed aloud. The gods are mad. ”

— George R.R. Martin

“smeared with grime. His attention was on the rise and fall of the breakers and his uncovered hands were clasped tightly at his back.…

— Claudy Conn

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

— Charles Boardman Hawes

“What grasses the horses had left was heavy with dew, as if some passing god had scattered a bag of diamonds over the earth.”

— George R.R. Martin

“He glanced first at me, and then at his devastated flowerbed; all plowed up and butchered, like a Ripper victim- like Pearly Poll, lying…

— Russell Brand

“William tell, William tell, Take your arrow, grip it well, There’s the apple– – aim for the middle– – Oh well … you just…

— Shel Silverstein