Branches Quote by Tennessee Williams

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had…

— Maggie Stiefvater

And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the…

— Milan Kundera

Now, having left cities behind me, turned Away forever from the strange, gregarious Huddling of men by stones, I find those various Great towns…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

Standing on the bridge, looking across at that empty city, everything in the compass of my gaze had been set there by a human…

— Marcel Theroux

I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When…

— Dag Hammarskjold

[On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and ... it…

— Nina Berberova

“A full moon, although less splendid than that earlier on,lit everything around. Before I reached the point where I would have to leave the…

— Saramago, José

But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I…

— Bernadette Roberts

I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense. It looked…

— Sheila Walsh

And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not…

— Arthur Machen