Quote by Mikhail Bulgakov

“He had lost his faith in the invisible, and now prided himself, as such unfortunates invariably do, in the wisdom which rejected much that…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I believe that the old man did indeed have far too narrow an idea of what a vision might be. He may, so to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“He was surprised by this absence of reproaches. He stood there all bewildered, the glass globe held arrested in mid-air. He did not understand…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The photographer was lost for riposte, obvious though it should have been; instead he turned to run. At least his mind did. In fact,…

— James Herbert

There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“To his mild surprise, the men were still out in the yard. Someone had even hung up the swordsmanship targets, which would certainly be…

— Terry Pratchett

“But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing…

— Charlaine Harris

“Yes, he knew that we was withdrawing from everything: not merely from human beings. A moment more and everything will have lost its meaning,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“He returned a moment later, alone, and, after taking a moment to catch his breath, resumed his rightful place on the bench without looking…

— Barry Eisler

“As he passed people rushing by the scores of thousands on the streets, he saw the glory of their faces. He saw in the…

— Mark Helprin

“The truth was that the sky didn’t discriminate. It covered all of them in this graceful, inexplicable splendor. No matter what they had done.”

— Laura K. Cowan

“It was the dilemma of the watchers: they didn't want to wait around for nothing at all, some idiot standing on the precipice of…

— Colum McCann