Empty Quote by Scott Westerfeld

But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that…

— Willa Cather

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

“[S]he realized quite abruptly that this thing which took him off, which kept him out so many hours day after day, this thing that…

— Algernon Blackwood

...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some…

— Toni Morrison

“She slept beneath a tree that night, sitting upright. She imagined she would have been scared for her life out in the open, for…

— Alice Hoffman

What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its…

— Jerzy Kosinski

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by…

— Lynn Kurland

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy…

— Anonymous

When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing she had…

— Dan Wells

“Her father...was all front to back in his transparency: what you saw was what there was, there was nothing clandestine in his character, and…

— Marianne Wiggins