Quote by R.A. Lafferty

“ One hundred and fifty years ago , the monster began, this country had become a place of industry. Factories grew on the landscape…

— Patrick Ness

“And the air was rent with cries of the living glaring at the rotted bones and rags of their kin and friends just a-swingin…

— Sarah E Wright

“When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along;…

— Mark Twain

“However, the crowds all the while maintained their mouse-tense hush, their air of urgency. Fear. There was a reek of it everywhere, Mosca realized,…

— Frances Hardinge

“Epochs later, the curtains grew dusty and brittle, the deep, vicious colour of a bruise. The floorboards creaked and we were civilized. We were…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“The pair of them were again in the eye of a storm of misery - their world was a storm of misery and they…

— Laini Taylor

“It was like resolution. The circling antagonisms collapsed inward like orbitals crashing and burning, surrendering to a mutual gravity that had dragged like chains…

— Richard K. Morgan

“And as I stood there looking in terror, the wind blew out both the candles in that ancient peaked garret, leaving me in savage…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“overgrown fields, obviously abandoned. We must be getting close to the next village, which was just as well. The sun was approaching the horizon,…

— Kiran Millwood Hargrave

“But it was the center of the room that drew my eyes, for there was a great circular table, covered in a glass dome,…

— Rosamund Hodge

“They went together to the pond. The frogs, frozen by the movement, sat still. Fourteen golden eyes like nuggets gleamed unwinking from the margin.…

— Enid Bagnold

“Then the creatures of the high air answered to the battle, foretelling the destruction that would be done that day; and the sea chattered…

— Augusta Gregory