Words Mere Words Quotes

“His heart cringed from the fanning motion of ribs like pale spiders crouched and fiddling with their prey.”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

“The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

“その沈黙は細かいの粉のように、空中にひそやかに浮かび漂っていた。それは特殊な空間から現れた蛾の群れが、ついさっきまきちらしていった粉だ。”
― 村上春樹, 1Q84

“[...] and yet the woman's existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin.”
― Yasunari Kawabata