Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“...he raised his eyes above the black shapes of the trees and saw a small moon, the colour of a lemon, dragged by clouds…

— Beryl Bainbridge

“But yet, but yet . . . the night he died, they [the elephants] were right there outside his house. And they came every…

— Lawrence Anthony

“What I wanted was to get away. But the moon was too far beyond, and there were white bits under me, where the flesh…

— Tsitsi Dangarembga

“Till now the evening had been calm, but suddenly the forest grew restless. As I ascended the path out of the river bottom, I…

— Barry Grant

“He was the heart of my world, my gravity, my sun. My life before him was a dream from which I’d joyously awoken. He…

— Harper Fox

“Without altering my pace or direction, I looked into the chinpira’s eyes, my expression obsidian flat. I let him know with this look that…

— Barry Eisler

“And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not his. He his in…

— Toni Morrison

“You had to translate his actions, for they were seldom accompanied by words, because his world was a quiet world; a disconnected, factured space;…

— Sarah Winman

“I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“...and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Exterior: the jungle. Interior: Dark night of the white man’s soul.”

— Andrew Durbin

“A smell of sandalwood boxes, a kind of glaze on the air from all the chintzes numbed his earthy vitality, he became all ribs…

— Elizabeth Bowen