Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“There was an extravagant winter storm outside. The tinfoil sky flashed beyond the window, rattling in the frame, and once or twice a white…

— Olivia Sudjic

“The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at…

— Cormac McCarthy

“My wires weren’t just crossed, they were tangled up like a box of Christmas lights, all knots and broken glass, blinking and shorting out…

— Misha Horne

“We headed down a narrow flight of stairs that ended at a low arch. Beyond the arch was yet another murky room. Did these…

— Rachel Hawkins

“I watched webs of lightning crackle in the dark air, framed by their black-cloud background, touching down on the rim forty or fifty miles…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“...some hours later they were down at the railroad tracks standing close together by the switch lights. The huge night moved overhead scattering drops…

— Anne Carson

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust…

— Anonymous

“But there was only that silence, as in the five or ten minutes before a vicious thundersquall strikes, when the purple heads stack up…

— Stephen King

“The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“The oth­ers went up­stairs, a slow unwilling pro­ces­sion. If this had been an old house, with creak­ing wood, and dark shad­ows, and heav­ily pan­elled…

— Agatha Christie

“Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the…

— Bram Stoker

“I could have thought up a lot of things, but many great people had to go and live before me. They might have stole…

— Jarod Kintz