Serenity Quote by Rafael Sabatini

“He was looking for a brightness, a resolve, a triumph over tomorrow that hardly seemed to be there. Perhaps he had expected their faces…

— Ray Bradbury

“Have you prepared a candlelit table for dinner in a forest where twilight reigns? Some may call this dazzling table, elegantly lit, a fantasy…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“As I followed the chief waiter with my eyes, I could not help thinking that the garden in which he had gradually blown to…

— Charles Dickens

“Books, he thought, were a sort of migratory bird. Here they rested a while, weary of their travels, before taking flight again, before moving,…

— Lavie Tidhar

“The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had been turned,…

— Sofia Samatar

“As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.”

— John Aubrey

“A waiter came swiftly along the room, and then stopped dead. His stoppage was as silent as his tread; but all those vague and…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Although there were moments even still in the grey glint of morning when the room had the agitated, stricken appearance of a person who…

— Ronald Firbank

“Wherever in life it may be, whether amongst its tough, coarsely poor, and untidily moldering mean ranks, or its monotonously cold and boringly tidy…

— Nikolai Gogol

“After resting in the cool, shadowy interior for a while, with feelings of both gratitude and distaste, he set off once more, and as…

— W.G. Sebald

“The chairs - turned towards one another in groups of twos and threes - seemed like the seats of ghosts in close conversation with…

— Baroness Emmuska Orczy

“...books provided much-needed ballast - something we both craved, amid the chaos and upheaval...”

— Will Schwalbe