Atmosphere Quote by Tim O'Brien

“It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and…

— Tim O'Brien

they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four…

— Toni Morrison

“Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and through it, they…

— Pat O'Shea

“It was the most perfectly warm and still summer night in months. Even the breeze caused by the airship’s motion was warmer than usual,…

— Alastair Reynolds

You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half…

— Gene Wolfe

It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits, whose clear…

— Paolo Giordano

“There was a water-drop, it joined the sea, A speck of dust, it was fused with earth; what of your entering and leaving this…

— Omar Khayyam

A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot…

— John Steinbeck

They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping…

— Cormac McCarthy

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

— Andre Breton

Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they…

— Jenny Erpenbeck