Prophetic Quote by Virginia Woolf

“He was grateful, then, for his friends, and for how relatively little they had mined from him, how they had left him to himself,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“He was hungry, and his first thought was to collect a dozen or two gulls’ eggs to make a meal. But embryo chicks were…

— Knut Hamsun

“and there was a fish pond a large one full of the fattest goldfish you ever saw and they were tame. they came to…

— Charles Bukowski

“There were other things too, something resembling soggy cotton balls, and something else, like clumps of tangled hair, and all of that inhabited the…

— Mariam Petrosyan

“And the air was rent with cries of the living glaring at the rotted bones and rags of their kin and friends just a-swingin…

— Sarah E Wright

“her father had built from ax-hewn planks thatched with bamboo and grass. The floor was dirt, but it was clean. Her mother, Foua, sprinkled…

— Anne Fadiman

“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

“On his back nothing was what it was, there were no demarcations, no outlines; nothing was formed, it was all in the process of…

— Fred Chappell

“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“What grasses the horses had left was heavy with dew, as if some passing god had scattered a bag of diamonds over the earth.”

— George R.R. Martin

“We stepped carefully, so softly, over thorny plants. The dust had turned to mud, splattering our shoes, socks, and legs. By the time we…

— Mia Kirshner

“It was not the site of the earth which surprised him – it was the smell. .... This earth and air smelled alive. There…

— Cordwainer Smith