Firsthand Accounts Quotes

“His mouth went dry and for a split second he had a metallic taste on the sides of his tongue. He stood, turned, and gulped. A vision had appeared from somewhere. Was she real? She was tall, with long, glossy light-gold hair surrounding a perfectly shaped face. The front of her silk white robe was open down to a delightful cleavage where a long silver cross hung. As she walked slowly past Alec to sit at the desk, the robe parted for a fleeting glimpse of her leg. A scent of lily of the valley meandered over him. A hand with long graceful fingers indicated for him to sit again in his chair. She was real!
She was, without doubt, the most beautiful woman Alec had ever seen.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

“Sometimes the lethal power is in the form of the simplest elements of all, air and water”
― Sara Niles, The Ice Storm: Nonfiction Short Story

“Every one who has been through such an extraordinary experience has much to say, and ought to say it if he has any faculty that way.”
― Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World