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“An angel passed. that's what the French say about a comfortable silence.”

— Marc Levy

“We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end. The windows…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“This clockwork twin of mine halted before me, her bowels churning out a settecento minuet, and offered me the bold carnation of her smile.…

— Angela Carter

“We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end. The windows…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The heaven of stars bends over me in silence, a harp through which the wind of time still whispers music some hand has hushed…

— John Hall Wheelock

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“14- Just as he didn't understand why a wave of something, something like the tail end of a sad dream, always swept through him…

— Khaled Hosseini

“The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up;…

— Virginia Woolf

“...a domino line of laughter, but with an edge to it, a longing, an awe, and many of the watchers realized with a shiver…

— Colum McCann

“There were sharp little blows in the music, and waves of quick, fine notes that burst and rolled like the thin, clear ringing of…

— Ayn Rand

“The day passed as it always did—in slow motion, with a thousand plaintive glances at the clock. But now it was even more unbearable,…

— John Green

“Abruptly then it began to rain, I heard the swish of it behind me and turned in time to see it coming fast along…

— John Banville