Air Quote by Willa Cather

We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving…

— Shirley Jackson

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

“I saw to the south a man walking. He was breaking ground in perfect silence. He wore a harness and pulled a plow. His…

— Annie Dillard

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.

— John Flanagan

“The sun, emerged from its gray shrouds of cloud, shone with a summer brilliance on the untouched slopes. Pausing in my work to overlook…

— Sylvia Plath

“The shadow in my mind lengthened with the night blotting out our half of the world, and beyond it; the whole globe seemed sunk…

— Sylvia Plath

“We lay on the short grass and looked at the sky, waiting for the tide to go out. Even as we watched the clouds…

— Jane Rogers

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was…

— Barbara Walters

“Depending on the places we passed, the night around us shaded from ink black to red to purple to a washed-out yellow that hung…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“The sunlight fell so implacably from a fixed sky that one was naturally inclined to slip away out of the reach of its attentions,”

— Marcel Proust

Each night the sun sank right in our eyes along the sea, making an undulating glittering pathway, a golden track charted on the surface…

— Lawrence Beesley

The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the…

— Alice Hoffman