Beautiful-prose Quote by stephen r. lawhead

“There she stood, by herself, amidst all her treasures, with a whole horde of men grovelling at her feet. Like those dreaded monsters of…

— Émile Zola

“She had a way of tidying up after people, interpreting and representing them when they were dead or absent, in the kindest light”

— A.L. Barker

“Her soul opened slowly and timidly to her kind, but her imagination rushed out to the beauties of the visible world; and the decaying…

— Edith Wharton

“It waited for her. Standing resolute in the moonlight, it had stood for a hundred years. Yet it waited just for her. Shadows passed…

— Grace Willows

“As she read on, her surroundings gradually faded, and soon there lay about her only the mists of dream; the purple, star-strown mists beyond…

— H.P. Lovecraft Poetry and The Gods

“Now that he was near her, this sighing of the human skin took on a dreamlike quality like the spell of the mountains.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

“From deep quiet gorges and wilderness of the holy mountain came to her wonderful, like silver mist, dreams and silently whispered into her ears…

— Osyp Nazaruk

“Nothing need be said; nothing could be said. There it was, all round them. It partook, she felt, carefully helping Mr. Bankes to a…

— Virginia Woolf

“In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall, there was a chair under a canopy, and there sat a…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“The unhoped was all but granted her. She could labour on in the valley of the shadow of books, for a ray of dazzling…

— George Gissing

“She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all…

— Hannah Hurnard

“Her heart swelled with the high holiness of it all. Imminence was all around. She was both warrior and shining spear. She was a…

— Kate Atkinson