Time Quote by Mo Yan

“It seemed to him that there was a scarlet thread running through the fabric of life, one that joined events across the years, piercing…

— Douglas Wynne

“... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we…

— John Geddes

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

— Hugh Kenner

“Oh scattered band, once my playmates, you few Who were amidst the gardens here and there in the city, How hesitantly we located one…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“This forest was immense. It stretched away uninterruptedly to the north, till stopped by having got to the shores of the Baltic. We had…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to work under…

— Graham Greene

“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line…

— John Buchan

“Old Nan nodded. ‘In that darkness, the Others came for the first time,’ she said as her needles went click, click, click. ‘They were…

— George R.R. Martin

Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black,…

— D. H. Lawrence

“Surely it is the sight of your enemy slain, the humiliation of his tribe and the lamentation of his women.”

— Terry Pratchett

“We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up…

— Tom Stoppard

“From one point of view it is an appeal to future ages from Florentine injustice and ingratitude; from another, it is a long and…

— Dante Alighieri