Quote by Terry Pratchett

“One night he woke to the soughing of great wings and saw a bat-like creature with the head of a violin resting upon the…

— Lawrence Durrell

“... but there lies a pain and longing in his eyes, a look of horror as he sees a batlike form crawl to its…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“His men had begun gathering the wounded or stunned into a small group some distance back up the slope. Here and there an animal…

— Derek Donais

“It is only a deep echo, perhaps a reverberation of her husband’s madness, as soft as a rustle of batwings in a cave.”

— Stephen King

“here it was again, clamping down upon his spirit, drying up his mouth, fluttering like an imprisoned bird in his bosom.”

— D.E. Stevenson

“Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free airs and…

— C.S. Lewis

“He coughed out the words, which took shape of his cigarette stained teeth turned into birds bereft of wing. He stammered the bloodied words…

— Biyi Bandele-Thomas

“The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something was seen…

— Charles Dickens

“By the time we returned, he’d always be three sheets to the wind, shouting into the sky and having conversations with the ghosts that…

— Christopher Motz

“The old man with the white beard had gone quite mad. He ripped his robes from his body and ran naked through the forest…

— Jennifer M. Baldwin

“Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose…

— Denis Johnson