Rib cage Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“He stood up and took off the dressing gown, the skullcap, the slippers. He took off the linen trousers and shirt. He took off…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“What anguish! Cincinnatus, what anguish! What stone anguish, Cincinnatus—the merciless bong of the clock, and the obese spider, and the yellow walls, and the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“In accordance with the law the death sentence was announced to Cincinnatus C. in a whisper.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Now I would solicit the particular attention of those numerous people who imagine that money is everything in this world, and that rank and…

— Livy

“He lay down on his pallet and drew the fawn down beside him. He often lay so with it in the shed, or under…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“And then he began to laugh in a peculiar way of his own which was both violent and soundless. His heavy reclining body, draped…

— Mervyn Peake

“Cinci made her way to the jagged piece of concrete Langley had dropped. She picked it up, and with the look of a mathematician…

— U.L. Harper

“The first warp-spasm seized Cúchulainn, and made him into a monstrous thing, hideous and shapeless, unheard of. His shanks and his joints, every knuckle…

— Thomas Kinsella

“that made me relieved that looks in fact cannot kill. Jamie followed me up to my chamber, and somewhat to my surprise, came in…

— Diana Gabaldon

“in better company, they found among all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one of which held the other in its embrace. One of these…

— Victor Hugo

“He (Lafcadio) was sitting all alone in a compartment of the train which was carrying him away from Rome, & contemplating–not without satisfaction–his hands…

— Andre Gide

“Nicaise had picked up a gilt three-pronged fork, but had paused before sampling the dish in order to speak. The fear he'd shown of…

— S.U. Pacat