Animals Quote by Rebecca West

“I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and let the dark blood flow. Then there gathered the spirits of the…

— Anonymous

“They had painted a lady leaning her arms on the sill of the window. This lady was waiting for a husband. Her flesh was…

— Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio

“Often, beyond the next turning, footfalls of a herd galloping across stone were heard, or further in the distance, with reassuring grunts, a wild…

— Julien Gracq

“The sound of carriage wheels and horses was faint,seeming more distant than they actually were. Drops of water clung to the wool of my…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“The people who had once dwelled within these lands had not met easy or pleasant ends. She could feel their pain even now, whispering…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings, at the…

— Virginia Woolf

“she had always considered that, far from the world of Ealing and its county councillors who over-ate and neighed like stallions, there were bright…

— Ford Madox Ford

“She let them go all night and in the mornings would find them coming toward her where she slept, with that alert and nervous…

— Paulette Jiles

“All the men, and some of the women, when milking, dug their foreheads into the cows and gazed into the pail. But a few—mainly…

— Thomas Hardy

“But he was so young then that later he was only able to remember fragments of what happened next: the lull of the morning…

— Téa Obreht

“If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by the clear…

— Euripides

“The sound of a feeding was impossible to ignore.  Cross heard the smack of teeth, and sucking sounds so loud he swore they came…

— Steven Montano