Gary Reed

“and yet the intimation of a view of her character opposite to his own, gave instantaneous distinctness to a thousand dim suspicions, which now grinned at him like so many demons.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories

“She watched a startling ray of sunshine, bursting from a sun as yet unseen, but piercing the greyness of the sky like a shining sword. Even as she watched, another joined it and the clouds were painted a brilliant orange, edged with gold.”
― Diney Costeloe, The Sisters of St Croix

“Imagination, by casting certain circumstances judicially into the shade, may see much to admire”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories

“Oh, how stubbornly does love,—or even that cunning semblance of love which flourishes in the imagination, but strikes no depth of root into the heart,—how stubbornly does it hold its faith until the moment”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories