Evocative Language Quotes

“We kissed. It was the bright sweetness of lemons, the warmth of fresh bread and the comfort of home after a long voyage.p. 305”
― Schoenewaldt

“The rain hammered down, the sea rising beneath it in spikes like the spines of a sea urchin.”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“Moonlight washing up against our fragile bodies
Stars collapsing from eager expectation
as I touch
taste
tremble
between passionate
mouthfuls of your truth.

A thousand misplaced kisses
and yet
only one of you.”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, Strange Deaths of the Last Romantic

“Soon the whole fading plain is covered with them and on the other side of the street lie nothing but graves, and dark, veiled women who bustle amongst the dead in shapes of grief.”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Morte na Pérsia

“In the first hour of the new day, in the cold, strong wind that already reaches our native shores, yes, in this one moment of eternally returning regret I realise: what staggers us, over and over again, is the morning splendour of departure!”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey