Moirae Quote by Mehreen Ahmed

“Quick lightening crept through unpredictably in toothed lines, followed by bellows from heavens above. Nalia began to run like a petrified black gazelle.”

— Mehreen Ahmed

He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not…

— Patrick O'Brian

“When he reached the Neva he stood still for a minute and turned a keen glance up the river into the smoky frozen thickness…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars;A pungent odor from the dusty sage;A sudden stirring of the huddled herds;A breaking of the distant table-landsThrough…

— Willa Cather

“For a moment they stood looking at each other in the firelight, while the old harper still fingered the shining strings and the other…

— Rosemary Sutcliff

“London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered…

— E. M. Forster

“It remained dark. Outside the window, the balcony was grey. Suddenly, on its sullen stone, I did not indeed see a less negative colour,…

— Marcel Proust

“The multicolored leaves were softly glowing against the black sky, creating an untimely nocturnal rainbow which scattered its spectral tints everywhere and dyed the…

— Thomas Ligotti

“And the purple parted before it, snapping back like skin after a slash, and what it let out wasn't blood but light: amazing orange…

— Stephen King

“Her black brows, her reddish-tawny hair and the pure red and white of her complexion defied the searching decomposing radiance: she might have been…

— Edith Wharton

“Twilight Surprise” poem: “The sky burns down, A rim of coals glowing gold and red, Limned with orange again And kissed with hints of…

— Elizabeth Barrette

“It was no amalgam of colors comparable to anything in mortal existence. It was as if all natural colors had been mutated into a…

— Thomas Ligotti