Scars Quote by Shona Moyce

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven.…

— Mervyn Peake

“The tower was battered, a relic of a distant past. Yet there was a dignity to it, a grace that belied the pockmarked walls…

— Paul Fraser Collard

“Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible…

— Mervyn Peake

Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round…

— Charles Dickens

The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake…

— Mervyn Peake

“And there were ruined castles covered with ivy - the badge of the old order, clinging to its own; and into the ivy doves…

— Hope Mirrlees

“One thing she realized soon was that the rain here was eternal. The weather must have changed since the Emperor's time, because now the…

— Catherine Fisher

“The light of a hunter's moon bleached the unresisting pastels from the faces of the towers, so that they looked like titanic ribs of…

— Mike Carey

“She wandered almost at random, zigzagging streets, following a canal for a bit, stopping to admire the towering red brick buildings that channelled her…

— Karl Drinkwater

“The night was bright with stars, but there was no moon in the heavens, and the gloom of the ivy-coloured church tower was complete.…

— Anthony Trollope

“A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“when the illumination did at last come, we felt repaid. It came unexpectedly, of course—things always do, that have been long looked and longed…

— Mark Twain