Children Quote by Robert Stone

“God did not live in this church; these statues gave an image to nothingness. I was the supernatural in this cathedral. I was the…

— Anne Rice

“I took a deep breath, inhaling the musty scent of unbrushed velvet and candle wax. So the room was blood red, dark, and scary.…

— Sarah Katherine Lewis

“They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank…

— Susan Hill

“The Holy Ghost? What was a Holy Ghost? A ghost with upper connections? A sacred linen sheet with holes for eyes that roamed around…

— Patric Juillet

“Her sponge cakes had the aroma of crucifixion.Within them was the sap of slyness and the fragrant frenzy of the Vatican.”

— Isaac Babel

“this, I believe, is when the holy relics at St Denis are usually taken down and exposed, bu all right-minded people, against fiends, bogles…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Walpurgis Night, when, according to the belief of millions of people, the devil was abroad - when the graves were opened and the dead…

— Bram Stoker

“Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colossi, set in the midst of a sordid present, where all that was living and warm-blooded seemed sunk in…

— George Eliot

“One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner.…

— Oscar Wilde

“And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that…

— James Lee Burke

“Our house was an old Tudor mansion. My father was very particular in keeping the smallest peculiarities of his home unaltered. Thus the many…

— John Berwick Harwood

“Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset…

— Havelock Ellis