Artifacts Quote by Richard Matheson

Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage…

— Cormac McCarthy

He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a…

— C. S. Lewis

“It hardly mattered to him that [his] book was forgotten and that it served no use; and the question of its worth at any…

— John Williams

“He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open a door…

— Chris Adrian

he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it…

— Edith Wharton

“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic, and then…

— William Somerset Maugham

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had…

— Anonymous

“He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface.…

— Jenny Nimmo

“He was out there alone with himself, composed, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart to the serenity of the skies, moved in…

— Victor Hugo