"She thought the time had come to get to know Fay a little better"
- Eudora Welty, "The Optimists Daughter"
"She thought the time had come to get to know Fay a little better"
- Eudora Welty, "The Optimists Daughter"
Many rumors like this about Enishte Effendi had begun to fly due to the secrecy of the book he was making and the money he was willing to pay - and because Master Osman, the Head Illuminator, despised him.
Banks later discovered that this dramatic way of expressing grief was universal amongst the Tahitian women, and he saw many who had permanent 'grief scars' on their heads.
The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
"Not far from me squatted one of the tankmen, a native of Rostov, a tall, melancholy senior lieutenant." Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago
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"They quarreled over it each time, not because she didn't want you baptized, but because she didn't want you baptized catholic." -Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
If the outside world has got on so long without me, it may go on for some time longer.
"Her voice was gentle and childish, her tread light and soft as that of a cat; but her manners more frequently resembled those of a pretty playful kitten, that is now pert and rogish, now timid and demure; according to its own sweet will."
(Anne Brontė, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1848)
"So that if my grandfather wished to attract the attention of the two sisters, he had to resort to some such physical stimuli as alienists adopt in dealing with their distracted patients: to wit, repeated taps on a glass with the blade of a knife, accompanied by a sharp word and a compelling glance, violent methods which these psychiatrists are apt to bring with them into their everyday life among the sane, either from force of professional habit or because they think the whole world a trifle mad."
(Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust)
We must grasp this Idea more concretely, more profoundly, since the emptiness, which clings to the Platonic Idea, no longer satisfies the richer philosophical needs of our spirit today.
--G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on Fine Art I
"And by this means very many be forced to forsake work and to give themselves to idleness."
- Utopia by Thomas More (1516). I'm guessing he's not at the utopian part yet. :p
He had broken the sabbath to do it.
"If there were gaps in the writer's sources, they were filled with fantasy, even by echoes of names which were already contained in the lists themselves."
Thompson, The Mythic Past.
"I rested my hand against a pillow or an arm, and felt easy."
-"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
He had been a boy along with Morel, so that,while the two disliked each other, they more or less took each other for granted.
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
The principality of the sky lightens now, over our green hill, into spring morning larked and crowed and belling.
- Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas