Dull Quote by Olga Masters

“Was that not the way it ought to be? The beauty of Bruges lay in being dead. From the top of the belfry it…

— Georges Rodenbach

“It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great deal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming…

— Jose P. Rizal

“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it…

— Dave Hutchinson

“This was a better place. Not just this new town, but this new world. So much brighter and cleaner than the old world of…

— Jonathan Maberry

“It was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have…

— Shirley Jackson

“And oh, what a distillery! It was cold, full of cobwebs, with small pockets of activity taking place, as limited production was ongoing. It…

— Kate Hopkins

“I’m rather sentimental about the ruins—as a child, I halfheartedly attempted suicide there now and again, always returning from post-tourist-hours expeditions with knees winking…

— Michelle Hodkin

“It was strange to read about the people he knew in New York, Ed and Lorraine, the newt-brained girl who had tried to stow…

— Patricia Highsmith

“... and it was extraordinary to me that some of the newspapers could have found good words for the butchery on the coast. But…

— V.S. Naipaul

“Would the bastard ever call? Smoke drifted from the ashtray where a fine Cohiba lay unattended. Several burned-out butts crowded the glass, competing for…

— J.T. Ellison

“He talked about terrible meetings in lonely places, of cyclopean ruins in the heart of the Maine woods beneath which vast staircases led down…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“By the standards of a tourist strolling past looking for a quick lunch, the place was a dive. The sign on the window was…

— Scott B. Pruden