Wild things Quote by Willa Cather

“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Perhaps you feel the stirrings of a wild feminine creature within, a long to leap out of the fishbowl of familiarity into the turbulent…

— Margot Datz

“She was warm and smelt like a wet sparrow.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“Something inside his chest unlocked--wildly, slowly, a peculiar sort of melting. He was lost. He was the thorn and the thistle, blown upon her…

— Shana Abé

“She had the feeling that if she went home, she might never get away. She thought of birds caught in nets. There was something…

— Alice Hoffman

“Her long body stiffened against him. Her cool fingers tightened in his shaggy fur, and her bare, clinging heels dug deep into his heaving…

— Jack Williamson

“She had that aching feeling again, that feeling she knew was happiness. It seemed not only unfamiliar but terribly fragile—and frightening. She wondered how…

— J.T. Geissinger

“It was a curious thing about the past--how it lay in wait for you, quietly, invisibly, almost as though it weren't there. You might…

— John Verdon

“she felt the wind rise, felt the pinprick of pebble and grit against her stockings and her cheeks—the slivered shards of mad sunlight in…

— Alice McDermott

“She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She hoped desperately that their game…

— Neil Gaiman

“At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that…

— Stephen King

“It was hard to describe what she had sensed, but it had been distinct and clear, like the shape of a leafless tree against…

— Jessica Rydill