calling on mrs fujiwara aroused in me much the same mixture of feelings; for she had been amongst my mother's closest friends, a kindly woman with hair that was by then turning grey.
a pale view of hills, kazuo ishiguro.
calling on mrs fujiwara aroused in me much the same mixture of feelings; for she had been amongst my mother's closest friends, a kindly woman with hair that was by then turning grey.
a pale view of hills, kazuo ishiguro.
"She had taken up a w wrong idea, fancying it was a mother and daughter, a son and a son's wife who all lived together, but when it appeared that Mr. Martin who bore a part in the narrative and was always mentioned with approbation for his great good nature in doing something or other was a single man-that there was no young Mrs. Martin, no wife in that case- she did suspect danger to her poor little friend from all this hospitality and kindness, and that if she were not taken care of, she might be required to sink herself forever."
"Emma" by Jane Austen
The sun was just down and to the west lay reefs of bloodred clouds up out of which rose little desert nighthawks like fugitives from some great fire at the earth's end.
From Blood Meridian.
The house's windows flashed brightly, emitting solid beams of blue-white light which appeared quite dazzling under the scarlet sky.
-- The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton
Thus was a Quaker rais'd to sovereign power.
-Voltaire, Letters Concerning the English Nation
Such thoughts pass through the consciousness so swiftly that they are gone before they can be more than glimpsed, but sometimes like comets trapped at last by a giant sun, they cannot escape and from their stubborn material the mind forges a masterpiece of literatrue, of philosophy or music.
-The Collective Short Stories of Arthur C Clarke
" Like a nun withdrawing , or a child explorng a tower, she went, upstairs, paused at the window, came to the bathroom"
-Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
When we entered the classroom, Angela went to sit at a black- topped lab table exactly like the ones I was used to.
This is from the book Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.
"Does she always devour her victims"
The Witcher EE short book - Andrzej Sapkowski
"Elizabeth said, 'I'm free now, if he would like to come up.'"
(PD James, Deat Comes to Pemberley, 2011)
I think I will have to revive this wonderful topic once again! :D
"Fanny was too much surprised to do more than repeat her aunt's words, 'Going to leave you?'"
Mansfield Park, 1814
"What do you suppose I have to wear to such a thing as that?"
The Diamond Necklace by Maupassant
But that's what you risk when you leave here.
Christ she would crack up!
And suddenly, standing there among the fruit barrows and corn-bins, in the middle of the street, it had seemed the most important thing she could do, to use some of the money left from Godmother Fry's gift, spend it extravagantly, like the woman who had poured out the jar of precious ointments.