“Suddenly Wally stooped, reached down, and heaved Sir Arthur out in a fireman’s lift. He flung him over his shoulder like an old bag of oats.”
-Samuel Steward
“Suddenly Wally stooped, reached down, and heaved Sir Arthur out in a fireman’s lift. He flung him over his shoulder like an old bag of oats.”
-Samuel Steward
“When I had been there a little longer, and had seen this phase of crystal clearness followed by long stretches of sunless cold; when the storms of February had pitched their white tents about the devoted village and the wild cavalry of March winds had charged down to their support; I began to understand why Starkfield emerged from its six months’ siege like a starved garrison capitulating without quarter.”
-Edith Wharton
“Patches of overgrown grass resembled a comb-over on the head of a bald person who didn’t want to see reality.”
-Elif Batuman
“He felt the mystery of his own unconscious like a whale looming invisibly beneath a tiny swimmer. If he couldn’t search or retrieve or view his own past, then it wasn’t his. It was lost.”
-Jennifer Egan
“She came into his eyes sudden and permanent as a photograph.”
-Tracy O’Neill
“…silent as a fig.”
-Gayl Jones
“The streets run steeply up and down, ad the streetcars travel back and forth like rooms ablaze with light.”
-Herta Müller