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James Reid Parker – The Archimandrite’s Niece
“He waited uncomfortably for a display of histrionics, but none materialized. Mme. Liapchev showed no sign of anger or even of acute disappointment. She looked at him dreamily and smoothed her gloves with exquisite grace. ‘You are so sympathetic,’ she said, either with rapt admiration or an excellent imitation of it. ‘So sympathetic and so good!'”
Stephen Crane – The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
“The bride was not very pretty, nor was she very young. She wore a dress of blue cashmere, with small reservations of velvet here and there, and with steel buttons abounding. She continually twisted her head to regard her puff sleeves, very stiff, straight, and high. They embarrassed her. It was quite apparent that she had cooked, and that she expected to cook dutifully. The blushes caused by the careless scrutiny of some passengers as she had entered the car were strange to see upon this plain, under-class countenance, which was drawn in placid, almost emotionless lines.”
Father is Firm With His Ailments
Loren isum
Irwin Shaw – The Girls in their Summer Dresses
“‘Let’s not see anybody all day,’ she said. ‘Let’s just hang around with each other. You and me. We’re always up to the neck with people, drinking their scotch, or drinking our scotch; we only see each other in bed. I want to go out with my husband all day long. I want him to talk only to me and listen only to me’.”
Arthur Conan Doyle – The Lost World
“The immense view before us, which carried us half-way back to the affluent of the Amazon, helped us to remember that we really were upon this earth in the twentieth century, and had not by some magic been conveyed to some raw planet in its earliest and wildest state. How difficult it was to realize that the violet line upon the far horizon was well advanced to that great river upon which huge steamers ran, and folk talked of the small affairs of life, while we, marooned among the creatures of a bygone age, could but gaze towards it and yearn for all that it meant!”
Herman Hesse – Siddhartha
“Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, sky and river, woods and mountains, all beautiful and mysterious and enchanting, and in the midst of it, he, Siddhartha, the awakened one, on the way to himself.”
Richard P. Bissell – The Death of Shorty
“‘This is worse than the carnival,’ Shorty thought. ‘So long Ma, so long boys. It’s hell to die so young,’ and he did so. He felt better immediately.”
Herman Melville – The Fiddler
“So my poem is damned, and immortal fame is not for me! I am nobody forever and ever. Intolerable fate.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Diamond as big as the Ritz
” ‘I’ve never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great, big diamonds that belonged to someone. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.’ ‘It was a dream,’ said John quietly. ‘Everybody’s childhood is a dream, a form of chemical madness’.”
Kurt Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle
“Man blinked, ‘What is the purpose of all this?’ he asked politely. ‘Everything must have a purpose?’ asked God. ‘Certainly,’ said man. ‘Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,’ said God. And he went away.”
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